0 past simple and past participle of boycott
1 to refuse to buy a product or take part in an activity as a way of expressing strong disapproval:
Political parties of the so-called radical opposition boycotted the elections for this reason.
This was aborted as the regional electoral officer boycotted the meeting.
In a sign of defiance, opposition parties boycotted the presidential elections in 1998 and the municipal polls in 2000.
The other metropolitan parties boycotted the congress, considering it to be subversive and communist-inspired.
The opposition parties denounced the contest as fraudulent, and boycotted the subsequent parliamentary elections.
The 1992 parliamentary election was excluded because the opposition parties boycotted the race, charging fraud in the earlier presidential election.
Some of the groups have boycotted state activities such as elections.
However, as the opposition boycotted the poll, voter turnout was a mere 35 % of the 3.5 million registered voters.
