| − | To '''boycott''' means to avoid or not to deal with a person, institution, event or nation, as a form of protest. For example, one might boycott a store by not shopping there. The word derives from that of Captain Boycott, a land agent for an absentee landlord in nineteenth-century [[Ireland]], who was declared ''persona non grata'' by local people in revenge for his harshness in evicting impoverished tenants.
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