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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.
1. : a pointed or sharpened stake, post, or pale. 2. a. : a detached body of soldiers serving to guard an army from surprise. b. : a detachment kept ready in camp for such duty. c. : sentry. 3. a. : a person posted by a labor organization at a place of work affected by a strike.
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.
a worker or group of workers who protest outside a building to prevent other workers from going inside, especially because they have a disagreement with their employers: There were pickets outside the factory gates. tacojim/E+/GettyImages. an occasion on which a picket happens: The union organized a month-long picket.
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 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.
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.
PICKET definition: a group of people who stand outside a building in order to show their anger about something and to…. Learn more.
picket (something) to stand outside somewhere such as your place of work to protest about something or to try and persuade people to join a strike 200 workers were picketing the factory. Striking workers picketed outside the gates.
picket. ( ˈpɪkɪt) n. 1. (Building) a pointed stake, post, or peg that is driven into the ground to support a fence, provide a marker for surveying, etc.
