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picket

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Related topics: Labour relations, unions, Army
pick·et1 /ˈpɪkɪt/ noun [countableC]  
1  BEL
a) when a group of people stand or march in front of a shop, factory, government building etc to protest about something or to stop people from going in during a strike 〔罢工时设置的〕纠察队；纠察线
 There was a mass picket (=one involving a lot of people) by students outside the main office of the university.
那所大学的主办公楼外有一支庞大的学生纠察队。
picket of
 They organized a picket of the power station.
他们组织了一支电厂罢工纠察队。
b) BELa person or the group of people involved in a picket 纠察队员
 The pickets persuaded some drivers not to enter the factory.
纠察队员劝阻一些司机不要进入工厂。
→ flying picket
2  PMAa soldier or a group of soldiers with the special duty of guarding a military camp 哨兵；哨兵队
 He’s on picket duty tonight.
今晚他站岗放哨。
Examples from the Corpus
picket• Pro-choice supporters donate money to the clinic for each picket who shows up.• Her abrupt removal from the campus sparked student sit-ins and early morning pickets in front of the school.• Protesters staged a noisy picket in front of the hotel where the governor spoke.• Who now remembers the second Clairol blowing from the picket fence?• She was down at the scene of the picket.• When he tapped the top of the picket, it creaked sideways and the chain popped loose.• Things are quiet on the picket line on this Sunday afternoon.• On the picket lines themselves, the police made uncompromising use of the discretion available to them under public-order law.• Frank laid out the picket signs on the sidewalk, but nobody wanted to pick them up.• I learned how to untie the rope and would push my brother over this picket fence.
mass picket• There was also a mass picket by supporters outside the Home Office.• Further violent demonstrations by mass pickets led to £525,000 additional fines being imposed.• In Nottinghamshire and adjacent Warwickshire and Leicestershire, pits continued to operate, despite physical intimidation by mass pickets.• Sit-ins, sit-downs, mass picketing.• Events at this picket were to shape the character of the next major mass picket of Hadfields on 12 March.• However, on 18 June, a secretly organised mass picket caught the police momentarily off guard.
Related topics: Labour relations, unions, Army
picket2 verb  
1  [intransitiveI, transitiveT]BELPROTEST to stand or march in front of a shop, factory, government building etc to protest about something or to stop people from going in during a strike （在…前）抗议；（在…外）担任纠察队员
 Protesters are still picketing outside the White House gates.
抗议者仍围在白宫大门外抗议。
 a group of picketing miners
一群进行罢工纠察的矿工
2. [transitiveT]PMA to place soldiers around or near a place as guards 在…布置哨兵
—picketing noun [uncountableU]
 The new law will still allow peaceful picketing.
新法令将仍然允许进行和平的罢工纠察。
Examples from the Corpus
picket• The opening of the penal unit inspired protests and picketing by neighbors in the surrounding neighborhood.• His own firm had been picketed for the last five months in a dispute over the use of new technology.• Even so, the unions' power to strike and picket remained substantial.• More than 1,200 teachers picketed that day.• Publishers were afraid of feminists picketing the bookstores.• Black demonstrators picketed the court throughout the trial, alleging that the prosecution of the youths was tantamount to a judicial lynching.• Union members have picketed the department store since it opened.• In a phone message to a friend, Siegel also threatened to picket the home of a prominent gay philanthropist.• So are all the guys planning to picket the museum today.
From Longman Business Dictionary
LBED_26_apicketpick·et /ˈpɪkɪt/ noun [countableC]
1 (also picket line) a group of people who stand in front of a shop, factory, or other building to protest about something or to stop people from going to work during a STRIKE
a picket on the steps of the Federal court building
Workers refused to cross a picket line to unload the fish.
2 (also picketer American EnglishAmE) one person in a picket line
The pickets persuaded some drivers not to enter the factory.
—picket verb [intransitiveI, transitiveT]
Labor unions picketed the plant, protesting at the use of non-union workers.
250 students will be picketing at the college.
Origin picket1
(1600-1700) French piquet, from piquer “to prick”
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