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synonyms for boycott

  • avoid
  • cut off
  • exclude
  • refuse
  • reject
  • snub
  • spurn
  • bar
  • blackball
  • blacklist
  • embargo
  • ostracize
  • outlaw
  • prohibit
  • proscribe
  • strike
  • brush off
  • hold aloof from
  • ice out
  • pass by
  • pass up
  • shut out
  • withhold patronage
See also synonyms for: boycotter
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antonyms for boycott

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  • accept
  • allow
  • approve
  • include
  • sanction
  • want
  • welcome
  • permit
  • buy
  • encourage
  • support
  • use
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How to use boycott in a sentence

The company was the first high-profile advertisers to join the boycott — and now one of the first to announce its return.
AS THE FACEBOOK BOYCOTT ENDS, BRAND ADVERTISERS ARE SPLIT ON WHAT HAPPENS NEXT WITH THEIR MARKETING BUDGETSSEB JOSEPHAUGUST 3, 2020DIGIDAY
It also appears Facebook won’t need to make many of the concessions boycott organizers wanted.
DID THE FACEBOOK ADS BOYCOTT ACTUALLY WORK?GREG STERLINGJULY 30, 2020SEARCH ENGINE LAND
In some cases, publishers have been able to draw a direct connection between the Facebook video ad revenue decline and the advertiser boycott.
AS ADVERTISERS BOYCOTT FACEBOOK, PUBLISHERS SEE VIDEO AD REVENUE FALL IN JULYTIM PETERSONJULY 16, 2020DIGIDAY
Boycott or no boycott the biggest Facebook advertisers were always going to spend less on the platform in 2020.
ADVERTISERS WERE CUTTING THEIR FACEBOOK AD SPENDING WELL BEFORE THE BOYCOTT BEGANSEB JOSEPHJULY 10, 2020DIGIDAY
When he met with leaders of the boycott, he stuck to familiar talking points.
FACEBOOK IN THE AGE OF REVOLTBRIAN MORRISSEYJULY 10, 2020DIGIDAY
There is hot talk of a boycott to be extended to everything sold or handled by the Hatch syndicate.
THE WRECKERSFRANCIS LYNDE
Another common word taken at first from politics, but now used in a general sense, is boycott.
STORIES THAT WORDS TELL USELIZABETH O'NEILL
That was a secondary boycott, which Mr. Cleveland said ought to be suppressed.
ETHICS IN SERVICEWILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
As soon as opposition developed the Ku Klux “freedom of the press” manifested itself in a desire to boycott the newspaper.
THE MODERN KU KLUX KLANHENRY PECK FRY
It is generally used in English as a verb of which the nearest equivalent is another curious verb—to boycott.
THE SCIENCE OF FAIRY TALESEDWIN SIDNEY HARTLAND
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WORDS RELATED TO BOYCOTT

  • a thou-shalt-not
  • boycott
  • censorship
  • don't
  • embargo
  • injunction
  • interdiction
  • limitation
  • no-no
  • off-limits
  • out of bounds
  • prohibition
  • proscription
  • refusal
  • restriction
  • stoppage
  • suppression
  • taboo
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