0 present participle of boycott
1 to refuse to buy a product or take part in an activity as a way of expressing strong disapproval:
In political terms, it took an argument for boycotting the elections away from the opposition and provided it with an added incentive to participate.
Other forms of potential resistance were internal party opposition, which enjoyed little success, and boycotting elections, practised by only a small number.
They could have treated the federal elections as a sham, boycotting them and refusing to send officers to the new government.
Yet, the fight against the new reservation policy continued with the persistent boycotting of schools, colleges and examinations.
Television and press coverage of the conference concentrated more on the small group of pickets boycotting the conference than on the sanguine reports from the press officers.
This system helped to marginalise the parliamentary opposition and radicalise the extra-parliamentary opposition, which understandably preferred to contest the system by boycotting it, rather than participate in it.
The statistics regarding police protection and boycotting are not collected by families.
The general public can help by boycotting shops that deliberately keep up their prices—and there are shops like that in the country.
