US boycott forces hand of traffic lights coalition

To engage in a concerted refusal to have dealings with (a person, a store, an organization, etc.) usually to express disapproval – that is the definition of the term „boycott“. It goes back to the British landowner Charles Cunningham Boycott, who was known for charging usurious rates of interest to his tenants and for victimizing his employees. They all resigned and took to the streets to protest him. Villagers joined the protest and were boycotting all trade with him. Even mail was no longer delivered to him. The boycott as a form of protest was born.