boycott
• verb refuse to have commercial or social dealings with (a person, organization, or country) as a punishment or protest. • noun an act of boycotting. — ORIGIN from Captain Charles C. Boycott, an Irish land agent so treated in 1880 in an attempt to get rents reduced.
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