picket
verb/ˈpɪkɪt/
/ˈpɪkɪt/
[transitive, intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they picket | /ˈpɪkɪt/ /ˈpɪkɪt/ |
| he / she / it pickets | /ˈpɪkɪts/ /ˈpɪkɪts/ |
| past simple picketed | /ˈpɪkɪtɪd/ /ˈpɪkɪtɪd/ |
| past participle picketed | /ˈpɪkɪtɪd/ /ˈpɪkɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form picketing | /ˈpɪkɪtɪŋ/ /ˈpɪkɪtɪŋ/ |
- 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.
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’.Want to learn more?
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