[
UK
/pˈɪkɪt/
]
[ US /ˈpɪkɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈpɪkɪt/ ]
NOUN
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- a vehicle performing sentinel duty
- a wooden strip forming part of a fence
- a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
- 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
- a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
VERB
-
fasten with a picket
picket the goat -
serve as pickets or post pickets
picket a business to protest the layoffs
How To Use picket In A Sentence
- The orchestrated escort and the accompanying police violence in clearing the picket reflected the involvement of city based police, the local constabulary having been cooperative with the workers.
- A picket was organised last week after receivers Robson Rhodes refused to withdraw redundancy notices issued to 67 staff.
- The new law will still allow peaceful picketing.
- However much we can all appreciate the arguments in favour of renting, most of us still hanker after the long-term idyll of bricks, mortar and a white picket fence. Are we better off renting?
- Very few workers were willing to cross the picket line .
- Trip flares, attached to low pickets, can be placed around a position or in an ambush site, and may either be fired when an enemy touches a tripwire or initiated by the defender or ambusher.
- Opponents would claim that the sight of placard-wielding pickets outside various religious functions presents the Gospel in a poor light.
- Unions held demonstrations and picketed across the country. U.K. Public-Sector Workers Strike
- Goodenow and his cohorts tell the players that fans support them, but just who the heck does the NHLPA think will back their picket line when the owners turn to replacement players next winter?
- Last week's picket forced the council to concede hours of informal and ultimately fruitless talks.