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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 strikerdemonstratorprotesterobjector
    • 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?"

    verb

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

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