Charles Boycott, the Englishman whose name became a universal verb

In 1880, Charles Cunningham Boycott, an English land agent in Ireland, became the target of an isolation campaign.

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Irish farmers, amid an agrarian war, refused to work for him or sell him goods.

This collective action gave rise to the term 'boycott,' now used worldwide.

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