Definitions of Picket [ˈpɪk ɪt]

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Definition of 'Picket'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) picket
a post, stake, or peg that is driven into the ground for use in a fence, to fasten down a tent, etc.

2.  picket
a person stationed, as by a union, outside a factory, store, etc., to dissuade workers or customers from entering it during a strike.

3.  picket
a person engaged in any similar demonstration, as against a government's policies.

4.  picket
a soldier or detachment of soldiers placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance.

5.  picket
an aircraft or ship performing similar sentinel duty.

6. (v.t.) picket
to enclose within a picket fence or stockade, as for protection or imprisonment.

7.  picket
to fasten or tether to a picket.

8.  picket
to place pickets in front of or around (a factory, embassy, etc.), as during a strike or demonstration.

9.  picket
to guard, as with pickets.

10.  picket
to station as a picket.

11. (v.i.) picket
to stand or march as a picket.

Etymology: (1680–90; < F piquet. See pike², -et)

Definition of 'Picket'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout, picket
a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

2. (noun) picket
a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack

3. (noun) picket
a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work

4. (noun) picket
a vehicle performing sentinel duty

5. (noun) picket, pale
a wooden strip forming part of a fence

6. (verb) picket, piquet
a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake

7. (verb) picket
serve as pickets or post pickets
"picket a business to protest the layoffs"

8. (verb) picket
fasten with a picket
"picket the goat"

Definition of 'Picket'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Picket
a stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses

2. (noun) Picket
a pointed pale, used in marking fences

3. (noun) Picket
a detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket

4. (noun) Picket
by extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance

5. (noun) Picket
a military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake

6. (noun) Picket
a game at cards. See Piquet

7. (verb) Picket
to fortify with pointed stakes

8. (verb) Picket
to inclose or fence with pickets or pales

9. (verb) Picket
to tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse

10. (verb) Picket
to guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket

11. (verb) Picket
to torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake

Translation of 'Picket'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: (any one of) a number of people employed at a factory etc who are on strike and who try to persuade workers not to go to work there, not to deliver goods there etc The men set up a picket to stop lorries getting into the factory; (
Afrikaans: staaktou	Arabic: نُظّار الإضْراب	Bulgarian: стачен пост
Brazilian: piquete	Czech: stávková hlídka	German: der Streikposten, Streikp
Danish: strejkevagt	Greek: ομάδα περιφρούρησης απεργ	Spanish: piquete
Estonian: streigivalve	Farsi: پیشگام اعتصاب	Finnish: lakkovahti
French: piquet de grève	Hebrew: מִשמֶרֶת שוֹבתִים	Hindi: धरना देने वाला
Croatian: straža (osobito za štrajk	Hungarian: sztrájkőr(ség)	Indonesian: piket
Icelandic: verkfallsvörður	Italian: picchetto	Japanese: ピケ
Korean: 피켓(대), 감시원	Lithuanian: piketas	Latvian: pikets
Malay: orang yg berpiket	Dutch: stakingspost	Norwegian: streikevakt
Polish: pikieta	Persian: پیشگام اعتصاب	Pashto: دشپاله تيره لرګي، په جنګۍ
Portuguese: piquete	Romanian: pichet	Russian: пикетчик
Slovak: štrajková hliadka	Slovenian: stavkovna straža; stražen	Serbian: štrajkač
Swedish: strejkvakt[er]	Thai: กลุ่มผู้นัดหยุดงาน	Turkish: grev gözcüsü
Taiwanese: 罷工時工會的糾察隊(員)	Ukrainian: пікет	Urdu: اسٹرائک کي وجہ سے کام سے
Vietnamese: nhóm người đứng gác không	Chinese: 工人罢工时的工会纠察队（员）
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