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 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 flag Afrikaans: staaktou Arabic flag Arabic: نُظّار الإضْراب Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: стачен пост
Brazilian flag Brazilian: piquete Czech flag Czech: stávková hlídka German flag German: der Streikposten, Streikp
Danish flag Danish: strejkevagt Greek flag Greek: ομάδα περιφρούρησης απεργ Spanish flag Spanish: piquete
Estonian flag Estonian: streigivalve Farsi flag Farsi: پیشگام اعتصاب Finnish flag Finnish: lakkovahti
French flag French: piquet de grève Hebrew flag Hebrew: מִשמֶרֶת שוֹבתִים Hindi flag Hindi: धरना देने वाला
Croatian flag Croatian: straža (osobito za štrajk Hungarian flag Hungarian: sztrájkőr(ség) Indonesian flag Indonesian: piket
Icelandic flag Icelandic: verkfallsvörður Italian flag Italian: picchetto Japanese flag Japanese: ピケ
Korean flag Korean: 피켓(대), 감시원 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: piketas Latvian flag Latvian: pikets
Malay flag Malay: orang yg berpiket Dutch flag Dutch: stakingspost Norwegian flag Norwegian: streikevakt
Polish flag Polish: pikieta Persian flag Persian: پیشگام اعتصاب Pashto flag Pashto: دشپاله تيره لرګي، په جنګۍ
Portuguese flag Portuguese: piquete Romanian flag Romanian: pichet Russian flag Russian: пикетчик
Slovak flag Slovak: štrajková hliadka Slovenian flag Slovenian: stavkovna straža; stražen Serbian flag Serbian: štrajkač
Swedish flag Swedish: strejkvakt[er] Thai flag Thai: กลุ่มผู้นัดหยุดงาน Turkish flag Turkish: grev gözcüsü
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 罷工時工會的糾察隊(員) Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: пікет Urdu flag Urdu: اسٹرائک کي وجہ سے کام سے
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: nhóm người đứng gác không Chinese flag Chinese: 工人罢工时的工会纠察队(员)

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