Boycott

Verb

 * 1) To abstain, either as an individual or group, from using, buying, or dealing with someone or some organization as an expression of protest.

Noun

 * 1) The act of boycotting

Adjectives for Boycott
fair; hampering; hostile; personal; private;protective; retaliatory; rigid; unwarranted; universal.

Verbs for Boycott
adopt—; approve—; assail—; coerce by—; counter—; discard—; formulate—; incur—; inflict—; instigate—; institute—; justify—; lift—; organize—; patronize—; prepare for —; proclaim—; punish with—; secure against—; shelter from—; stand firm on—; support—; sweep through—; threaten with —; urge—; warrant—; yield to—; —demoralizes; —deprives; —incites; —injures; —outrages; —persecutes; —prevents; —pro¬tects ; —reduces; —starves.

Synonyms
blackball; blacklist; embargo; withhold patronage

Thesaurus
avoid, ban, banish, banishment, bar, barring, beef, bitch, blackball, blacklist, blockade, boggle, boycottage, call in question, challenge, circumscription, complain, complaint, compunction, cry out against, debarment, debarring, demarcation, demonstrate, demonstrate against, demonstration, demur, demurrer, disfellowship, dispute, embargo, enter a protest, eschew, exception, exclusion, expostulate, expostulation, go on strike, go out, grievance, grievance committee, hold out, holler, howl, inadmissibility, indignation meeting, injunction, job action, kick, lock out, lockout, march, narrowing, nonadmission, nonviolent protest, object, objection, omission, ostracism, ostracization, ostracize, outlaw, outlaw strike, pass by, pass over, picket, picketing, preclusion, press objections, prohibition, proscribe, proscription, protest, protest demonstration, protestation, qualm, raise a howl, rally, refuse, reject, rejection, relegation, remonstrance, remonstrate, remonstration, repudiation, restriction, revolt, rulebook slowdown, scruple, shun, shut it down, sick-in, sit down, sit in, sit-down, sit-down strike, sit-in, slow down, slowdown, squawk, state a grievance, strike, sympathy strike, taboo, teach in, teach-in, tie-up, turnout, walk out, walkout, wildcat strike, work stoppage, yell bloody murder

Etymology
From Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott, an English evicting land agent in Ireland who was subject to a boycott organized by the Irish Land League in 1880.