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2007.05.30(Review of 2003.10.17 edition)
It's bad enough when someone doesn't buy your product. But when they actively encourage others not to buy it as well, then you have a real problem on your hands!
BOYCOTT ボイコット（する）、不買運動
- To boycott (verb) is to refuse to buy, use, or do something in order to show your disapproval.
The noun form is also boycott. - boycott （動詞）は、不支持や非難の意を示すために、ある商品を購入、使用することや、何らかの行動をとることを拒否する、という意味です。
名詞形も同じ boycott です。
- Environmental groups are calling on their members to boycott all food products grown using the pesticide, which has been shown to have lingering toxic effects.
- An eight-month-long consumer boycott has finally convinced the clothing manufacturer to change its business practices in Asia.
- The powerful NGO launched a boycott of stores carrying the company's products.
- The government has imposed a boycott on beef from the region after several new cases of mad cow disease were reported.
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