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The word Boycott traces its Etymology to Captain Charles Boycott, a land agent in 1880s Ireland. When he refused to lower rents during a poor harvest, the community shunned him — workers, shopkeepers, even the postman cut him off. The tactic took his name and entered the OED by 1888.
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