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Definition of picket in English: picketnounPlural pickets ˈpɪkɪtˈpɪkɪt 1A 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 Example sentencesExamples - The arrests occurred on day one of the strike, after pickets refused to allow delivery trucks driven by non-union members in to the premises.
- Up to 100 pickets were outside the depot in Sheffield, Britain's largest bus garage, on Saturday.
- The general secretary, who joined pickets outside the station, said the strikes proved that rail workers did not believe they were being treated fairly on pay.
- Meanwhile, the armed pickets outside joined, no doubt, by gunmen escaping from inside the ground, were maintaining a fire in the direction of the police, who returned the fire.
- The first thing pickets outside the local garage did was to barbecue sausages and eat them with tomato bread.
- But the letters from animal rights activists, the e-mails, even the odd picket outside the grotto, were wearing him down.
- The unions were organising a London weighting battle bus to tour round the picket lines, and pickets were to lobby the department of education.
- By 7am there were 300 pickets outside the main hospital.
- The visitors were all well behaved though and there were no pickets outside, at least not when we were there.
- Opponents would claim that the sight of placard-wielding pickets outside various religious functions presents the Gospel in a poor light.
- According to the newspaper, pickets have been sleeping outside the cold storage on the harbour quay to prevent any scab operation from breaking the strike.
- Peter rushes outside to tell the pickets and call them off.
- No, the workers were not restive, nor were pickets lining up outside.
- There were a few pickets outside, assistant curators and clerical staff having a wage dispute with the museum.
- After two months management hired a new workforce, reopened operations and called in police to disperse pickets outside the hotel.
Synonyms striker, demonstrator, protester, objector, picketer strike picket, flying picket - 1.1 A blockade of a workplace or other venue staged by a picket.
the workers walked out, mounting mass pickets at the factory gates Example sentencesExamples - Where support was harder to get, the miners launched mass pickets to stop the movement of coal.
- There have been similar pickets outside further education colleges and post offices in that area.
- Hundreds or thousands of workers are pulled off their regular jobs to organize events like pickets and street demonstrations.
- So far the action has been characterised by lively and good natured mass pickets with very few members crossing and many former non-members joining.
- Workers also made it clear that any move to evict the union from its office would be met with a mass picket.
- Union leaders should call for collections, delegations to the picket lines and mass pickets to stop any scabbing.
- There were unofficial strikes involving up to 250,000 workers, demonstrations and mass pickets.
- Farmers are set to stage pickets at milk processing plants in North Yorkshire, according to a pressure group.
- As pressure groups across the country today threatened to stage pickets at supermarkets and processing plants, local farmers said the action was ‘entirely justified’.
- You must not assume that on every occasion there is a mass picket there is going to be trouble.
- Mass pickets closed down the entire complex and management were forced to cave in within days.
- In the absence of policing, would mass pickets have physically prevented miners from going to work rather than peacefully trying to dissuade them?
- This definition can cover legitimate forms of protest, including strikes, pickets, blockades and mass demonstrations.
- The company offered negotiations, but only if we lifted the mass picket.
- Mass pickets could have created a focus to win action.
- On Saturday, as port operators began to move cargo without the use of the striking longshoremen, the strikers initiated mass pickets to stop them.
- Options they're looking at include refusing to bring ships upstream or even a picket / blockade.
- Mass pickets were held last week outside at least 18 of the 565 schools affected.
- Then Fiat workers walked out, mounting mass pickets at factory gates.
- A mass meeting last week voted unanimously to continue with the action and more than half the workforce took part in a mass picket.
Synonyms demonstration, picket line, blockade, boycott picketing, secondary picketing
2A 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? a picket of soldiers fired a volley over the coffin Example sentencesExamples - Union cavalry pickets and Signal Corps observers would have provided similar intelligence.
- But a picket of soldiers followed the poor coffin to the grave, officers made speeches over it, and her old comrades mustered from all parts of France to say good-bye.
- For many of the campaigns of history sentries, or larger security parties constituting infantry pickets or cavalry vedettes, did not habitually fire on one another.
- A picket of soldiers traversed the streets, taking an unarmed policeman with them to announce that able-bodied men must come together in certain places to help to put out the flames.
- ‘No picquet should be less than 1 Officer and 15 men,’ he was told.
Synonyms watchman, guard, watch, sentry, sentinel, night watchman, scout 3usually as modifier A pointed wooden stake driven into the ground, typically to form a fence or to tether a horse. Example sentencesExamples - With a little ingenuity you can create attractive picket designs.
- It was fenced with white picket wood, and the dirt was clean and smooth, as if someone had just cleaned it up hours before.
- In one of my gardens, in the dappled shade of oak trees, I have placed a pair of them either side of a wooden picket gate, where they are a delight each spring.
- Various styles, rail configurations, and picket tops can be added to stop access or egress.
- There was also in evidence picket poles, rods, chains and all the instrumental paraphernalia of field work.
- It was in a yard surrounded by the same white picket fencing.
- Your fencing can be customized with ornate finials, scrolls, rings, and your choice of three distinctive picket tops and post caps.
- The site, which is 5 metres by 7 metres, comes with two trestle tables, 20 plastic chairs and picket fencing.
- The playing field remains the target for vandals - this month further damage has been done to the picket fencing surrounding the children's play area.
- The versatility of wood picket fencing allows you many architectural styles which are influenced by the surroundings.
- He saw another Indian dismount and pull the picket pin of a horse near the tent, untouched by gunfire then but struck from his horse after he dashed away.
- Each site had a picnic table, fire ring, and picket poles for your convenience.
- There is also a fencing division that produces garden fencing, picket fencing, post and rail and mortise fencing.
- The best time is about an hour before sunset, when you can exit through a picket gate and head north along the beach.
- He saved the wood piece by piece until he had enough pickets cut for the fence, and it took him years to complete the task.
- There are quite a few ornamental fences, and they all tout their own types of picket attachment.
- Jane, a qualified nursery nurse, has ensured that the entrance is like a park in Mary Poppins, with an oak tree to symbolise growth and white picket fencing around imitation grass.
- An internal retaining rod allows simple picket attachment without welds or screws, while permitting panels to follow the slope and contours of your property.
- ‘Be nice,’ the boy opened the white picket gate and they walked to the door.
- White picket fencing, kerbstones around plots and over-elaborate flower beds were also to be stopped in a bid to tidy up cemeteries.
Synonyms stake, peg, post, paling upright, stanchion, pier, piling, palisade
verbpicketed, pickets, picketing ˈpɪkɪtˈpɪkɪt [with object]Act as a picket outside (a workplace or other venue) strikers picketed the newspaper's main building no object 18,000 people turned up to picket Example sentencesExamples - They are now picketing the engineering workshops.
- Around 40 workers picketed the factory on Friday of last week.
- Strikers picketed offices in London, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Norwich, Birmingham and Nottingham.
- The nurses, who picketed the hospital, want a monthly salary increase of 1,500 rupees.
- Workers picketed the library and held a public rally.
- Some films - usually involving scenes of sex or violence - have provoked such a level of controversy that protesters have picketed cinemas and local authorities have been forced to ban the movies.
- Some workers marched through the town and began picketing the factory.
- Over 200 delegates and supporters picketed the offices of the department of housing to protest against the latest budget cuts by the administration, which could see some of them lose their homes.
- Around thirty workers sacked from the company are picketing their former workplace in a bid to highlight their recent sacking by administrators.
- After picketing the office, they presented a petition to the provincial council secretary with their demands.
- Workers responded to the provocation by picketing the factory and over 150 barricading themselves inside a canteen.
- The workers continued to picket the offices on December 8 despite the presence of dozens of armed police and security guards.
- The workers have been picketing the hotel since February 8, over the terms of a proposed collective bargaining work agreement.
- Many workers picketed outside courthouses in the main cities during the week.
- He said if individuals continues to picket meat factories and are identified to him he will deal with them severely.
- The workers, who were picketing the factory, were hit by rubber bullets and were later hospitalised.
- Similar signs popped up in front yards and along the expressway, while local residents picketed the hospital in the evenings.
- Workers who picket a workplace and demonstrators who block roads or entrances to financial institutions, such as the stock exchange, could be charged as terrorists, as could computer hackers.
- Many of the workers picketing the depot are themselves parents of children who have had to find alternate means to get to school.
- On Saturday, protesters are planning to picket supermarkets in up to 100 towns and cities across the country, urging shoppers not to buy farmed salmon.
Synonyms demonstrate at, form a picket at, man the picket line at, launch a demonstration at, protest at, form a protest group at blockade, isolate, surround, cordon off
Derivatives noun ˈpɪkɪtəˈpɪkɪdər Thousands of other workers who were approaching the factory to start the morning's work joined the picketers and began a strike. Example sentencesExamples - The courts were quick to grant injunctions strictly limiting the number of picketers, so as to ensure the strikebreaking operation could go forward unimpeded.
- We make our way to the theater, where noisy picketers are demonstrating against the very education reforms that had been on the governor's agenda earlier in the day.
- The picketers had been protesting for more than a month, demanding jobs, with no response from government authorities.
- One police officer explained that they were responding to complaints and that, while they were in solidarity with picketers, they would have to arrest everyone.
Origin Late 17th century (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'. Rhymes cricket, midwicket, picquet, piquet, pricket, snicket, thicket, ticket, wicket Definition of picket in US English: picketnounˈpikitˈpɪkɪt 1A person or group of people standing outside a place of work or other venue, protesting something or trying to persuade others not to enter during a strike. Example sentencesExamples - The unions were organising a London weighting battle bus to tour round the picket lines, and pickets were to lobby the department of education.
- After two months management hired a new workforce, reopened operations and called in police to disperse pickets outside the hotel.
- No, the workers were not restive, nor were pickets lining up outside.
- There were a few pickets outside, assistant curators and clerical staff having a wage dispute with the museum.
- According to the newspaper, pickets have been sleeping outside the cold storage on the harbour quay to prevent any scab operation from breaking the strike.
- The first thing pickets outside the local garage did was to barbecue sausages and eat them with tomato bread.
- Up to 100 pickets were outside the depot in Sheffield, Britain's largest bus garage, on Saturday.
- The visitors were all well behaved though and there were no pickets outside, at least not when we were there.
- The arrests occurred on day one of the strike, after pickets refused to allow delivery trucks driven by non-union members in to the premises.
- Opponents would claim that the sight of placard-wielding pickets outside various religious functions presents the Gospel in a poor light.
- By 7am there were 300 pickets outside the main hospital.
- Peter rushes outside to tell the pickets and call them off.
- The general secretary, who joined pickets outside the station, said the strikes proved that rail workers did not believe they were being treated fairly on pay.
- Meanwhile, the armed pickets outside joined, no doubt, by gunmen escaping from inside the ground, were maintaining a fire in the direction of the police, who returned the fire.
- But the letters from animal rights activists, the e-mails, even the odd picket outside the grotto, were wearing him down.
Synonyms striker, demonstrator, protester, objector, picketer - 1.1 A blockade of a workplace or other venue staged by a group of people in protest of something.
Example sentencesExamples - Hundreds or thousands of workers are pulled off their regular jobs to organize events like pickets and street demonstrations.
- Mass pickets could have created a focus to win action.
- Union leaders should call for collections, delegations to the picket lines and mass pickets to stop any scabbing.
- In the absence of policing, would mass pickets have physically prevented miners from going to work rather than peacefully trying to dissuade them?
- Mass pickets closed down the entire complex and management were forced to cave in within days.
- Then Fiat workers walked out, mounting mass pickets at factory gates.
- Options they're looking at include refusing to bring ships upstream or even a picket / blockade.
- Workers also made it clear that any move to evict the union from its office would be met with a mass picket.
- Mass pickets were held last week outside at least 18 of the 565 schools affected.
- Farmers are set to stage pickets at milk processing plants in North Yorkshire, according to a pressure group.
- There have been similar pickets outside further education colleges and post offices in that area.
- On Saturday, as port operators began to move cargo without the use of the striking longshoremen, the strikers initiated mass pickets to stop them.
- So far the action has been characterised by lively and good natured mass pickets with very few members crossing and many former non-members joining.
- Where support was harder to get, the miners launched mass pickets to stop the movement of coal.
- You must not assume that on every occasion there is a mass picket there is going to be trouble.
- This definition can cover legitimate forms of protest, including strikes, pickets, blockades and mass demonstrations.
- A mass meeting last week voted unanimously to continue with the action and more than half the workforce took part in a mass picket.
- There were unofficial strikes involving up to 250,000 workers, demonstrations and mass pickets.
- The company offered negotiations, but only if we lifted the mass picket.
- As pressure groups across the country today threatened to stage pickets at supermarkets and processing plants, local farmers said the action was ‘entirely justified’.
Synonyms demonstration, picket line, blockade, boycott
2A soldier or party of soldiers performing a particular duty. a picket of soldiers fired a volley over the coffin Example sentencesExamples - But a picket of soldiers followed the poor coffin to the grave, officers made speeches over it, and her old comrades mustered from all parts of France to say good-bye.
- Union cavalry pickets and Signal Corps observers would have provided similar intelligence.
- For many of the campaigns of history sentries, or larger security parties constituting infantry pickets or cavalry vedettes, did not habitually fire on one another.
- ‘No picquet should be less than 1 Officer and 15 men,’ he was told.
- A picket of soldiers traversed the streets, taking an unarmed policeman with them to announce that able-bodied men must come together in certain places to help to put out the flames.
Synonyms watchman, guard, watch, sentry, sentinel, night watchman, scout 3usually as modifier A pointed wooden stake driven into the ground, typically to form a fence or palisade or to tether a horse. See also picket fence Example sentencesExamples - There was also in evidence picket poles, rods, chains and all the instrumental paraphernalia of field work.
- The site, which is 5 metres by 7 metres, comes with two trestle tables, 20 plastic chairs and picket fencing.
- He saved the wood piece by piece until he had enough pickets cut for the fence, and it took him years to complete the task.
- It was fenced with white picket wood, and the dirt was clean and smooth, as if someone had just cleaned it up hours before.
- The playing field remains the target for vandals - this month further damage has been done to the picket fencing surrounding the children's play area.
- The best time is about an hour before sunset, when you can exit through a picket gate and head north along the beach.
- Jane, a qualified nursery nurse, has ensured that the entrance is like a park in Mary Poppins, with an oak tree to symbolise growth and white picket fencing around imitation grass.
- It was in a yard surrounded by the same white picket fencing.
- There is also a fencing division that produces garden fencing, picket fencing, post and rail and mortise fencing.
- Each site had a picnic table, fire ring, and picket poles for your convenience.
- ‘Be nice,’ the boy opened the white picket gate and they walked to the door.
- Various styles, rail configurations, and picket tops can be added to stop access or egress.
- There are quite a few ornamental fences, and they all tout their own types of picket attachment.
- He saw another Indian dismount and pull the picket pin of a horse near the tent, untouched by gunfire then but struck from his horse after he dashed away.
- An internal retaining rod allows simple picket attachment without welds or screws, while permitting panels to follow the slope and contours of your property.
- White picket fencing, kerbstones around plots and over-elaborate flower beds were also to be stopped in a bid to tidy up cemeteries.
- The versatility of wood picket fencing allows you many architectural styles which are influenced by the surroundings.
- Your fencing can be customized with ornate finials, scrolls, rings, and your choice of three distinctive picket tops and post caps.
- In one of my gardens, in the dappled shade of oak trees, I have placed a pair of them either side of a wooden picket gate, where they are a delight each spring.
- With a little ingenuity you can create attractive picket designs.
verbˈpikitˈpɪkɪt [with object]Act as a picket outside (a workplace or other venue) strikers picketed the newspaper's main building no object 18,000 people turned up to picket Example sentencesExamples - They are now picketing the engineering workshops.
- He said if individuals continues to picket meat factories and are identified to him he will deal with them severely.
- After picketing the office, they presented a petition to the provincial council secretary with their demands.
- Around 40 workers picketed the factory on Friday of last week.
- Similar signs popped up in front yards and along the expressway, while local residents picketed the hospital in the evenings.
- Over 200 delegates and supporters picketed the offices of the department of housing to protest against the latest budget cuts by the administration, which could see some of them lose their homes.
- The workers, who were picketing the factory, were hit by rubber bullets and were later hospitalised.
- Many workers picketed outside courthouses in the main cities during the week.
- Strikers picketed offices in London, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Norwich, Birmingham and Nottingham.
- Workers responded to the provocation by picketing the factory and over 150 barricading themselves inside a canteen.
- The nurses, who picketed the hospital, want a monthly salary increase of 1,500 rupees.
- Workers picketed the library and held a public rally.
- Some workers marched through the town and began picketing the factory.
- Many of the workers picketing the depot are themselves parents of children who have had to find alternate means to get to school.
- The workers continued to picket the offices on December 8 despite the presence of dozens of armed police and security guards.
- Workers who picket a workplace and demonstrators who block roads or entrances to financial institutions, such as the stock exchange, could be charged as terrorists, as could computer hackers.
- On Saturday, protesters are planning to picket supermarkets in up to 100 towns and cities across the country, urging shoppers not to buy farmed salmon.
- The workers have been picketing the hotel since February 8, over the terms of a proposed collective bargaining work agreement.
- Around thirty workers sacked from the company are picketing their former workplace in a bid to highlight their recent sacking by administrators.
- Some films - usually involving scenes of sex or violence - have provoked such a level of controversy that protesters have picketed cinemas and local authorities have been forced to ban the movies.
Synonyms demonstrate at, form a picket at, man the picket line at, launch a demonstration at, protest at, form a protest group at
Origin Late 17th century (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’. |