buycott

English

Etymology

Blend of buy + boycott

Noun

buycott (plural buycotts)

  1. 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.
    • 2005 October 4, Leo Hickman, “Should I ... support a consumer boycott?”, in The Guardian:
      And, in addition to the boycott, double your power via the "buycott" by giving your cash to firms and services that are notably behaving themselves.

Verb

buycott (third-person singular simple present buycotts, present participle buycotting, simple past and past participle buycotted)

  1. (transitive) To support (a company, country, etc.) by buying its products.
    • 2009 October 11, Anand Giridharadas, “Boycotts Minus the Pain”, in New York Times:
      Proponents of buycotting see these premiums as pure political expression: citizens’ parting with money to refine the world.
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