How to use picket in a sentence. 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. 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 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.
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. Definition of picket noun from the oxford advanced learner's dictionary A person or group of people who stand outside the entrance to a building in order to protest about something, especially in order to stop people from entering a factory, etc An occasion at which this happens Five pickets were arrested by police. A detachment of one or more troops, ships, or aircraft held in readiness or advanced to warn of an enemy's approach
There are ten meanings listed in oed's entry for the noun picket, one of which is labelled obsolete See ‘meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. A stick or post that is pointed at the end so that it can be put into the ground A person or group of people who are standing or marching near a place to protest something
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