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   picket

   /ˈpɪkɪt/

   noun

   • 1. a person or group of people who stand outside a workplace or other venue as a protest or to try to persuade others not to enter during a strike: "forty pickets were arrested" Similar strikerdemonstratorprotesterobjectorpicketerstrike picketflying picket
   • ▪ a blockade of a workplace or other venue staged by a picket: "the workers walked out, mounting mass pickets at the factory gates" Similar demonstrationpicket lineblockadeboycottpicketingsecondary picketing
   • 2. a soldier or small group of soldiers performing a particular duty, especially one sent out to watch for the enemy: "when would this headlong advance run into the enemy pickets?"
   • 3. a pointed wooden stake driven into the ground, typically to form a fence or to tether a horse: "a cedar-picket stockade" Similar stakepegpostpalinguprightstanchionpierpilingpalisade

   verb

   • 1. act as a picket outside (a workplace or other venue): "strikers picketed the newspaper's main building"

   Word Origin late 17th century (denoting a pointed stake, on which a soldier was required to stand on one foot as a military punishment): from French piquet ‘pointed stake’, from piquer ‘to prick’, from pic ‘pike’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. picketer noun

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   A picket is a vertical wooden board in a fence. You might have a white picket fence enclosing your whole front yard, so your little dog can't escape.

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   a person or group of people who stand outside the entrance to a building in order to protest about something, especially in order to stop people from entering a factory, etc. during a strike; an occasion at which this happens

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   What does picket mean in English?

   • Other forms: pickets; picketed; picketing A picket is a vertical wooden board in a fence. You might have a white picket fence enclosing your whole front yard, so your little dog can't escape. Besides the "wooden stake or strip" meaning, you can also use picket as a verb to mean "protest or strike."

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   What does a group of people picket mean?

   • When a group of people picket, or picket a place of work, they stand outside it in order to protest about something. A few dozen employees picketed the company's headquarters. 7 meanings: 1. a pointed stake, post, or peg that is driven into the ground to support a fence, provide a marker for surveying,.... Click for more definitions.

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   What does it mean to picket a place of work?

   • When a group of people, usually trade union members, picket a place of work, they stand outside it in order to protest about something, to prevent people from going in, or to persuade the workers to join a strike. The miners went on strike and picketed the power stations. [VERB noun] 100 union members and supporters picketed outside. [VERB]

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   What does Piquete mean?

   • piquete, hacer piquetes en, formar parte de un piquete… piquete, fazer piquetes em, fazer piquete… Need a translator? Get a quick, free translation! PICKET definition: 1. a worker or group of workers who protest outside a building to prevent other workers from going….

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   What are pickets & how do they work?

   • Pickets are people who are picketing a place of work. Ten hotels were damaged by pickets in the weekend strike of hotel workers. The strikers agreed to remove their pickets and hold talks with the government. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

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   What is a picket fence?

   • loading examples... A picket is a vertical wooden board in a fence. You might have a white picket fence enclosing your whole front yard, so your little dog can't escape.

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   There are ten meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun picket, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.