consumer boycott
Organized buying refusal
A consumer boycott is an organized refusal to buy goods or services from a company or country, typically to protest its practices or policies.
Boycotts aim to create economic pressure for change: The consumer boycott forced the company to improve working conditions.
Unlike individual abstention, a consumer boycott involves collective action and public calls for participation.
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
- strikeForceful impact or stoppage
- embargoOfficial prohibition on trade
- activismDirect effort for reform
- picketPointed fence stake
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- boycottstrade embargo, oil embargo, arms embargo, blacklist, divestment
- economic protestlabor strike, general strike, rent strike, picket, picket line
- labor actionslabor strike, strike, strike vote, walkout, picket
- Peaceful Protestnonviolence, civil disobedience, peaceful protest, passive resistance, peaceful resistance
- protestdemonstration, walkout, picket, protest march, sit-in
consumer boycottlabor strike
Organized cessation of work
work stoppage · walkout · sit-down strike · general strike · wildcat strike
consumer boycottbrand loyalty
Habitual preference for one company
customer loyalty · conspicuous consumption · impulse buying · mass consumption
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