Boycotter

/bɔɪˈkɒtər/ noun

Definition

A person who participates in or organizes a boycott; someone who refuses to engage with something as protest.

Etymology

From boycott combined with the agent suffix -er (one who performs an action). The term emerged in the late 19th century to describe those who practiced the newly-named form of protest.

Kelly Says

Boycotters range from individual consumers to organized movements—but they all derive their power from the idea that Charles Boycott himself discovered: that withdrawal of cooperation is a powerful weapon.

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