杯葛 (bui1 got3) — hartal—closing down of shops and warehouses with the object of realising a demand, this being a popular form of protest in the Indian subcontinent; boycott | Note: While 'hartal' is Gujurati for "everything to close", '杯葛' is from the English 'boycott' in Cantonese

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Mandarin Pinyin: bei1 ge2

Meaning of 杯葛

nounhartal—closing down of shops and warehouses with the object of realising a demand, this being a popular form of protest in the Indian subcontinent; boycott | Note: While 'hartal' is Gujurati for "everything to close", '杯葛' is from the English 'boycott'

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