Picket - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
- a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
- a vehicle performing sentinel duty
- a wooden strip forming part of a fence (syn: pale)
- a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake (syn: piquet)
verb
Extra examples
Pickets marched in front of the company headquarters.
The strikers held picket signs painted with angry slogans.
The students were barred from holding a picket outside the company's headquarters.
Workers picketed outside the grocery store.
The union is picketing the factory.
His employer's shop was picketed by about two or three men in the morning.
There was a mass picket (=one involving a lot of people) by students outside the main office of the university.
They organized a picket of the power station.
The pickets persuaded some drivers not to enter the factory.
He's on picket duty tonight.
Protesters are still picketing outside the White House gates.
The new law will still allow peaceful picketing.
Three workers, several pickets, and two police officers were badly injured.
About the hedge there was a picket fence
'pick' is the primitive from which 'picket' is derived
Word forms
I/you/we/they: picket
he/she/it: pickets
present participle: picketing
past tense: picketed
past participle: picketed
singular: picket
plural: pickets
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