- PICKET Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of PICKET is a pointed or sharpened stake, post, or pale How to use picket in a sentence
- PICKET Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
Picket definition: 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
- PICKET | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
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
- Picket (military) - Wikipedia
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
- PICKET definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
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
- Picket - definition of picket by The Free Dictionary
A detachment of one or more troops, ships, or aircraft held in readiness or advanced to warn of an enemy's approach: "The outlying sonar picket was to detect, localize, and engage any submarine trying to close the convoy" (Tom Clancy)
- picket noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . .
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 during a strike; an occasion at which this happens Five pickets were arrested by police
- picket - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
(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
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