Blacklist vs. Boycott — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Blacklist and Boycott
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Blacklist
A list of persons or organizations that have incurred disapproval or suspicion or are to be boycotted or otherwise penalized.
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Boycott
A boycott is an act of nonviolent, voluntary and intentional abstention from using or buying a product, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for moral, social, political, or environmental reasons. The purpose of a boycott is to inflict some economic loss on the target, or to indicate a moral outrage, to try to compel the target to alter an objectionable behavior.
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Blacklist
A list of email addresses, IP addresses, domains, or keywords, that are expressly blocked by an email account.
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Boycott
To abstain from or act together in abstaining from using, buying, dealing with, or participating in as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion
Boycott a business.
Boycott merchants.
Boycott buses.
Boycott an election.
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Blacklist
To place on or as if on a blacklist.
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Boycott
The act or an instance of boycotting.
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Blacklist
A list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned.
The software included a lengthy blacklist of disreputable websites to block.
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Boycott
To abstain, either as an individual or a group, from using, buying, or dealing with someone or some organization as an expression of protest.
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Blacklist
(transitive) To place on a blacklist; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned.
You can blacklist known spammers with that button.
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Boycott
The act of boycotting.
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Blacklist
A list of people who are out of favor
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Boycott
To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter others from holding such relations; to subject to a boycott.
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Blacklist
Put on a blacklist so as to banish or cause to be boycotted;
Many books were blacklisted by the Nazis
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Boycott
The process, fact, or pressure of boycotting; a combining to withhold or prevent dealing or social intercourse with a tradesman, employer, etc.; social and business interdiction for the purpose of coercion.
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Boycott
A group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies
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Boycott
Do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of
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