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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.
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.
Jun 19, 2024 · picket (third-person singular simple present pickets, present participle picketing, simple past and past participle picketed) (intransitive) To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment. To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes. To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
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.
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.
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."
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.
When a group of people, usually labor union members, picket, or 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.
a group of people who stand outside a building in order to show their anger about something and to try to stop people going inside. Want to learn more? Improve your vocabulary with English Vocabulary in Use from Cambridge. Learn the words you need to communicate with confidence. picket. verb [ I, T ]
