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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
boycott
boy·cott [boycott boycotts boycotted boycotting] verb, noun BrE [ˈbɔɪkɒt] NAmE [ˈbɔɪkɑːt]
verb ~ sth
to refuse to buy, use or take part in sth as a way of protesting
•We are asking people to boycott goods from companies that use child labour.
Verb forms: 
Word Origin:
from 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.
Example Bank:
•They have urged people to boycott foreign products.
noun
an act of boycotting sb/sth
•~ (of sth) a trade boycott of British goods
•~ (on sth) a boycott on the use of tropical wood
Word Origin:
from 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.
Example Bank:
•Opposition groups declared a boycott of the elections.
•Politicians want to end their boycott of the talks.
•The US has imposed a boycott on some European goods.
•The group is calling for a mass consumer boycott of these products.
•There is pressure on the biggest union to join the boycott.
•a boycott by international singers
•a consumer boycott of GM foods
•The test was only sat by a handful of students due to a boycott by teaching unions.
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