with obj.
1- withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest抵制(国家, 组织或个人)。
1.1
- refuse to buy or handle (goods) as a punishment or protest拒绝购买(或经销)(商品)。
1.2
- refuse to cooperate with or participate in (a policy or event)拒绝合作(或参与)(某一政策或事件)。
- a punitive ban on relations with other bodies, cooperation with a policy, or the handling of goods抵制(不准与其他机构发生任何关系、不准就某一政策进行磋商或合作、不准经销某种商品的报复性禁令)。
词源
from the name of Captain Charles C. Boycott (1832- 97), an Irish land agent so treated in 1880, in an attempt instigated by the Irish Land League to get rents reduced.