picket
noun/ˈpɪkɪt/
/ˈpɪkɪt/
- 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.
- I was on picket duty at the time.
- a mass picket of the factory
WordfinderExtra ExamplesTopics Social issuesc2, Working lifec2- They organized a mass picket of the governor's palace.
- angry people with picket signs
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- duty
- line
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- a soldier or group of soldiers guarding a military baseTopics War and conflictc2
- a pointed piece of wood that is fixed in the ground, especially as part of a fence
- a picket fence
Word Originlate 17th cent. (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’.
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