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secondary boycott

noun

C2CEFR level
88/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

Union pressure aimed at a neutral third party to force it to stop dealing with the employer in dispute.

Picketing our supplier to choke off our materials is an unlawful secondary boycott, not a primary strike.

Topic: Employment law in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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