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- noun An
opposing boycott set up in response to another boycott.
Etymologies
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counter- + boycott
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Examples
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Mr. Samaranch engineered a turnaround, helped by the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, which were widely deemed successful despite a Soviet counterboycott.
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When some of the Pepsi team arrived in Wilmington, North Carolina, for a promotional campaign, they got wind of a counterboycott against Pepsi-Cola being spread in the region.
THE REAL PEPSI CHALLENGE Stephanie Capparell 2007
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