boycott
verb- boycott something
to refuse to buy, use or take part in something as a way of protesting 拒绝购买(或使用、参加);抵制 We are asking people to boycott goods from companies that use child labour. 我们正呼吁大家抵制雇用童工的公司的产品。 They have urged people to boycott foreign products. 他们敦促大家抵制外国产品。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + boycott- threaten to
- call on somebody to
- urge somebody to
- …
Word Originfrom the name of Captain Charles C. Boycott (1832–97), an Irish land agent treated in this way in 1880, in an attempt instigated by the Irish Land League to get rents reduced.