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   picket

   /ˈpɪkɪt/

   noun

   • 1. a 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" Similar strikerdemonstratorprotesterobjectorpicketerstrike picketflying picket
   • ▪ a blockade of a workplace or other venue staged by a picket: "the workers walked out, mounting mass pickets at the factory gates" Similar demonstrationpicket lineblockadeboycottpicketingsecondary picketing
   • 2. a 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?"
   • 3. a pointed wooden stake driven into the ground, typically to form a fence or to tether a horse: "a cedar-picket stockade" Similar stakepegpostpalinguprightstanchionpierpilingpalisade

   verb

   • 1. act as a picket outside (a workplace or other venue): "strikers picketed the newspaper's main building"

   Word 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’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. picketer noun

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   A picket is a post, stake, or peg used in a fence or barrier, or a person who protests or demonstrates outside a place. Learn more about the origin, usage, and examples of the word picket from Dictionary.com.

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   A picket is a pointed stake, a person or group who protests, or a small detachment of troops or ships. Learn more about the word's origin, usage, and synonyms from various dictionaries and sources.

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   noun. a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event. synonyms: lookout, lookout man, scout, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch. see more. noun. a vehicle performing sentinel duty. see more. noun. a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work.