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The word boycott entered the English language during the Irish "Land War" and derives from Captain Charles Boycott, the land agent of an absentee landlord, Lord Erne, who lived in County Mayo, Ireland. Captain Boycott was the target of social ostracism organized by the Irish Land League in 1880. As harvests had been poor that year, Lord Erne ...
An election boycott is the boycotting of an election by a group of voters, each of whom abstains from voting. Boycotting may be used as a form of political protest where voters feel that electoral fraud is likely, or that the electoral system is biased against its candidates, that the polity organizing the election lacks legitimacy, or that the candidates running are very unpopular.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Abbreviation BDS Formation 9 July 2005 (2005-07-09) Founder Omar Barghouti, Ramy Shaat Type Nonprofit organization Purpose Boycotts, political activism General Coordinator Mahmoud Nawajaa Main organ Palestinian BDS National Committee Website bdsmovement.net A BDS ...
In 1888, the word was included in the first volume of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (later known as The Oxford English Dictionary). [32] According to Gary Minda in his book, Boycott in America: How Imagination and Ideology Shape the Legal Mind, "Apparently there was no other word in the English language to describe this ...
An anti-boycott, counter-boycott, or buycott is the excess buying of a particular brand or product in an attempt to counter a boycott of the same brand or product. Anti-boycott measures could also be in the form of laws and regulations adopted by a state to prohibit the act of boycott among its citizens.
Pronunciation is the way in which a word or a language is spoken. This may refer to generally agreed-upon sequences of sounds used in speaking a given word or language in a specific dialect ("correct" or "standard" pronunciation) or simply the way a particular individual speaks a word or language. [1] (Pronunciation ⓘ)
• In an attempt to exclude abortion from the definition of health care, Wyoming Republicans have offered a bill saying "No act, treatment or procedure that causes harm to the heart, respiratory ...
Disinvestment refers to the use of a concerted economic boycott to pressure a government, industry, or company towards a change in policy, or in the case of governments, even regime change. The term was first used in the 1980s, most commonly in the United States , to refer to the use of a concerted economic boycott designed to pressure the ...