How to use picket in a sentence. A picket (archaically, picquet [variant form piquet]) is a soldier, or small unit of soldiers, placed on a defensive line forward of a friendly position to provide timely warning and screening against an enemy advance. The firm's annual general meeting was picketed by union members angry at the decision to cut jobs The group has decided not to picket until after the talks. A post, stake, pale, or peg that is used in a fence or barrier, to fasten down a tent, etc. See examples of picket used in a sentence.
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. A detachment of one or more troops, ships, or aircraft held in readiness or advanced to warn of an enemy's approach Was to detect, localize, and engage any submarine trying to close the convoy (tom clancy). (transitive) to guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket (obsolete, transitive) to torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake. Definition of picket noun from the oxford advanced learner's dictionary
An occasion at which this happens Five pickets were arrested by police. Those who cross the picket line and work despite the strike are known pejoratively as scabs.
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