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- Dictionarypicket/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
- 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?"
verb
- 1. act as a picket outside (a workplace or other venue): "strikers picketed the newspaper's main building"
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PICKET definition: 1. a worker or group of workers who protest outside a building to prevent other workers from going…. Learn more.
The meaning of PICKET is a pointed or sharpened stake, post, or pale. How to use picket in a sentence.
noun. a post, stake, pale, or peg that is used in a fence or barrier, to fasten down a tent, etc. a person stationed by a union or the like outside a factory, store, mine, etc., in order to dissuade or prevent workers or customers from entering it during a strike.
PICKET meaning: 1. a worker or group of workers who protest outside a building to prevent other workers from going…. Learn more.
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. American English : picket / ˈpɪkɪt /
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."
a. A person or group of persons stationed outside a place of employment, usually during a strike, to express grievance or protest and discourage entry by nonstriking employees or customers. b. A person or group of persons present outside a building to protest. v. pick·et·ed, pick·et·ing, pick·ets. v.tr. 1.
PICKET definition: a group of people who stand outside a building in order to show their anger about something and to…. Learn more.
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. Five pickets were arrested by police.
A person, as a member of a labor union on strike, stationed outside a factory, store, or public building, often carrying a sign, to demonstrate opposition to certain views or practices, keep strikebreakers from entering, or dissuade people from buying. To serve as a picket.
