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Meaning of picket in English

  1. Pronunciation

    /ˈpɪkɪt/

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  1. Verb

    picket

    Definitions

    1. serve as pickets or post pickets

    Examples

    • « picket a business to protest the lay-offs »
  2. 2. fasten with a picket

    Examples

    • « picket the goat »
  3. Noun

    picket

    Etymology

    late 17th century (denoting a pointed stake, on which a soldier was required to stand on one foot as a military punishment): from French piquet‘pointed stake’, from piquer‘to prick’, from pic‘pike’

    Definitions

    1. a person employed to watch for something to happen
  4. 2. a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
  5. 3. a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
  6. 4. a vehicle performing sentinel duty
  7. 5. a wooden strip forming part of a fence

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