picket
pick|et /p'ɪkɪt/ (pickets picketing picketed)
1 [VERB] V n, V
When a group of people, usually trade union members, picket a place of work, they stand outside it in order to protest about something, to prevent people from going in, or to persuade the workers to join a strike.
The miners went on strike and picketed the power stations...
100 union members and supporters picketed outside.
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Picket is also a noun.
...forty demonstrators who have set up a twenty four hour picket.
● picketing [N-UNCOUNT]
There was widespread picketing of mines where work was continuing.
2 [N-COUNT]
Pickets are people who are picketing a place of work.
The strikers agreed to remove their pickets and hold talks with the government.pick|et fence (picket fences)
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A picket fence is a fence made of pointed wooden sticks fixed into the ground, with pieces of wood nailed across them.pick|et line (picket lines)
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A picket line is a group of pickets outside a place of work.
No one tried to cross the picket lines.
1 [VERB] V n, V
When a group of people, usually trade union members, picket a place of work, they stand outside it in order to protest about something, to prevent people from going in, or to persuade the workers to join a strike.
The miners went on strike and picketed the power stations...
100 union members and supporters picketed outside.
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Picket is also a noun.
...forty demonstrators who have set up a twenty four hour picket.
● picketing [N-UNCOUNT]
There was widespread picketing of mines where work was continuing.
2 [N-COUNT]
Pickets are people who are picketing a place of work.
The strikers agreed to remove their pickets and hold talks with the government.pick|et fence (picket fences)
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A picket fence is a fence made of pointed wooden sticks fixed into the ground, with pieces of wood nailed across them.pick|et line (picket lines)
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A picket line is a group of pickets outside a place of work.
No one tried to cross the picket lines.