Definitions
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- noun The opposite of a
boycott : deliberately purchasing a company's or a country's products in support of their policies, or to counter a boycott. - verb transitive To support (a company, country, etc.) by buying its products.
Etymologies
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Examples
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They may consider a "buycott" which directs LGBT spending to specific businesses with good LGBT policies, and an implicit "boycott" everything else.
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Supporters plan a rally of their own at a Tempe baseball stadium, encouraging like-minded Americans to "buycott" Arizona by planning vacations in the state.
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Supporters of the law expect to draw thousands to a rally of their own Saturday evening at a baseball stadium in suburban Tempe, encouraging like-minded Americans to "buycott" Arizona by planning vacations in the state.
Arizona Immigration Law: Thousands Converge On Phoenix For Dueling Protest Rallies 2010
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Supporters plan a rally of their own at a Tempe baseball stadium, encouraging like-minded Americans to "buycott" Arizona by planning vacations in the state.
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Check out their entries and the entries of the other Green Game Changers -- eco-adventurer David de Rothschild, "buycott" organizer Brent Shulkin, carbon footprint analyst Gavin Starks, home gardening guru Roger Doiron, eco-entrepreneur Graham Hill, ClimateCount's Gary Hirshberg, and "Green Porno" auteur Isabella Rossellini -- and vote for your favorites.
Arianna Huffington: More HuffPost Game Changers: Politics and Style 2009
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Americans on the West Coast are the most likely to "buycott" a product or service; however, both Midwestern and West Coast consumers are most likely to boycott.
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Americans on the West Coast are the most likely to "buycott" a product or service; however, both Midwestern and West Coast consumers are most likely to boycott.
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Interestingly, although liberals tend to "buycott" more than conservatives, very liberal and very conservative consumers tend to boycott at about the same level.
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Interestingly, although liberals tend to "buycott" more than conservatives, very liberal and very conservative consumers tend to boycott at about the same level.
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The survey also finds that while liberals boycott and "buycott" at about the same level, conservatives are much more likely to boycott products or services than to "buycott" them.
kewpid commented on the word buycott
“… a way of more effectively responding to businesses whose practices are objectionable. Don’t simply not give them your money, which doesn’t have much effect because those businesses have little way of measuring what it is they lost, because they never know what they lost. Instead, almost give them your money, and then cancel your transaction and state explicitly your reason for canceling.�?
— Dan Waber, Buycott instead of Boycott (2008) Free Idea Factory.
June 7, 2008
vendingmachine commented on the word buycott
The usual reason for an anti-boycott is to prevent a company or entity from backing down on the decision that initially caused the boycott.
Some examples of recent anti-boycotts (buycotts] include:
The "Buy Danish" campaign, set up to counter the boycott of Danish goods by the Middle East.
The anti-boycotts by supporters of Israe] to oppose Boycott Israel campaigns.
When Whole Foods Market was boycotted because the CEO opposed U.S. President Barack Obama's health care reform policies, opponents of health care reform staged nationwide buycotts.
July 28, 2015