- BOYCOTT, CAPTAIN
- an Irish landlord's agent in Connemara, with whom the population of the district in 1880 refused to have any dealings on account of disagreements with the tenantry.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
BOYCOTT, CAPTAIN
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boycott — boy·cott / bȯi ˌkät/ vt: to engage in a concerted refusal to have dealings with (as a store, business, or organization) usu. to express disapproval or to force acceptance of certain conditions see also primary boycott, secondary boycott ◇ A… … Law dictionary
Boycott — Boy cott , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Boycotted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Boycotting}.] [From Captain Boycott, a land agent in Mayo, Ireland, so treated in 1880.] To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
boycott — ► VERB ▪ refuse to have commercial or social dealings with (a person, organization, or country) as a punishment or protest. ► NOUN ▪ an act of boycotting. ORIGIN from Captain Charles C. Boycott, an Irish land agent so treated in 1880 in an… … English terms dictionary
Boycott — A boycott is a form of consumer activism involving the act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with someone or some other organization as an expression of protest.EtymologyThe word boycott entered the English language during… … Wikipedia
Boycott — A boycott is a refusal to do business or have other contaets with a person, a corporation, or a country. The word boycott, with a small b, surfaced in 1880 when Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott (1832 1897), an English land agent for the… … Dictionary of eponyms
Boycott — Recorded as Boycott and Boykett, this is an English and sometimes Irish surname, although the origins are the same. It is a name which has at various times has been very much in the international limelight. Surprisingly perhaps it is locational… … Surnames reference
Boycott, Charles Cunningham — ▪ British estate manager born March 12, 1832, Burgh St. Peter, Norfolk, Eng. died June 19, 1897, Flixton, Suffolk retired British army captain who was an estate manager in Ireland during the agitation over the Irish land question. He is the … Universalium
boycott — /ˈbɔɪkɒt / (say boykot) verb (t) 1. to combine in abstaining from, or preventing dealings with, as a means of intimidation or coercion: to boycott official functions; to boycott non complying companies. 2. to abstain from buying or using: to… …
boycott — A species of ostracism, a combination in refusing to have business dealings with another until he removes or ameliorates conditions deemed inimical to the members of the combination, or some of them, or grants concessions which are deemed to make … Ballentine's law dictionary
boycott — [19] The word boycott sprang into general use in the year 1880, to describe the activities of the Irish Land League. This was an organization set up in 1879 by the Irish nationalist Michael Davitt to press for agrarian reforms, rent reductions,… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
