Synonym: ban, blackball, picket, revolt, strike. Similar words: cotton, cottage, tycoon, boy, mascot, at any cost, scotland, coterie. Meaning: ['bɔɪkət] n. a group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies. v. refuse to sponsor; refuse to do business with.
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31. S.-led boycott of the Moscow Games.
32. Six countries have threatened to boycott the Olympics.
33. Court officials said Gorby, former leader of the collapsed Soviet Union, had no special rights to boycott the trial.
34. A school pupil boycott had also been in operation since the beginning of the year.
35. At Insein in Yangon, troops were brought in when 400 monks extended the boycott beyond the Oct. 20 deadline.
36. Students have threatened to boycott certain banks as a protest at their investment policies.
37. Residents are being urged to boycott the supermarket blamed for most of the problems.
38. The firm staged the one-day boycott yesterday to put pressure on Liverpool City Council to pay up.
39. No strike deadline has been set(sentencedict.com), nor has a full-fledged boycott been called.
40. The four major opposition parties reportedly decided to boycott the Nov. 29 elections in protest at alleged unfair election conditions.
41. Now Jim Wade, who is one of Eurotunnel's founding shareholders, is urging bikers to boycott the service.
42. As little girls returned covered in dust and mud a parental boycott developed.
43. Rumours that the previous record-holder, Geoffrey Boycott, had his back to the play at the key moment remain unverified.
44. Animal rights groups have called for a tourism boycott in protest against the plan.
45. Mark logs and milled lumber from the older trees, giving consumers a choice of boycott.
46. The government issued a ban on public demonstrations; the students defied it and began to boycott classes.
47. A boycott of classes also began in support of the hunger strikers.
48. The Communists tried to boycott the election in the South, too,[www.Sentencedict.com] but the effort failed.
49. The company is concerned to halt a growing environmental campaign to boycott peat sales from garden centres and superstores around the country.
50. According to the report the majority of parties had indicated that they would boycott the election.
51. Residents of the city have organized a boycott of the fast-food chain.
52. The opposition call for a boycott of the election was almost universally observed yet the Government still claimed a landslide victory.
53. Students had defied an earlier instruction from the King to end the boycott, the second in six months.
54. Some Ulster Unionists have already declared they would boycott him if he were chosen.
55. Friends of the Earth want shoppers to boycott some furniture stores, including Hatfields of Colchester.
56. Groups demanding an autonomous Sikh state have already called for a boycott of the elections.
57. The former Soviet-bloc countries boycotted the 1984 Olympics in response to the boycott of the 1980 Games in Moscow.
58. The final version merely required firms to report to the Commerce Department whenever they complied with the boycott.
59. With students threatening to run a Barclays-style boycott against any that participate, stand by for more to pull out.
60. The company apparently shipped arms to the regime in contravention of the U.S. trade boycott.
More similar words: cotton, cottage, tycoon, boy, mascot, at any cost, scotland, coterie, boyle, by contrast, cowboy, by comparison, pageboy, boyfriend, gotta, flamboyant, motto, boysenberry, bottom, rotten, spotted, bottled, forgotten, at bottom, besotted, blotting, not to mention.