to be on a picket
61picket — 1. noun 1) forty pickets were arrested Syn: demonstrator, striker, protester 2) they decided to organize a picket Syn: demonstration, picket line, blockade, boycott, strike 2. verb …
62picket — [ˈpɪkɪt] noun [C] I ˈpicket ˌline a group of people who are protesting outside a building, especially a group of workers who are on STRIKE II verb [I/T] picket [ˈpɪkɪt] to take part in a protest outside a building About 100 people picketed the US …
63picket line — /ˈpɪkət laɪn/ (say pikuht luyn) noun a line of persons forming a picket (def. 2): *behaviour on the picket line which is intimidating or violent will still be prohibited. –aap news, 1996 …
64picket (to) — Demonstrate. Union workers form PICKET LINES, and protesters against government policies picket the White House …
65picket line — Union protest technique, creating a line of union members which nonunion workers and customers would have to pass in order to enter or leave a business. ► “The picket line, once largely honored by unionized and nonunion workers alike, appears… …
66picket pin — noun 1. : a short stake driven into the ground for tethering a horse 2. West : any of several species of small ground squirrels of the genus Citellus which when sitting erect and motionless resemble a stake at a short distance * * * picket pin, a …
67picket pool — noun /pɪˈkɛt,pɪˈkeɪ/ A Picket is a short term micro pool where ticket holders compete against one another. They would sit in the waiting area and play pickets …
68picket — 1. noun a) A stake driven into the ground. A picket fence. b) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake. Pickets warned of enemy troops approaching from the west. 2 …
69picket — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. post, pale, fence; sentry, guard, sentinel, patrol; striker, protester, goon. See warning, restraint, disobedience. v. enclose, bar, fence; tether, restrain. See circumscription. II (Roget s IV) n. 1 …
70picket — pick·et || pɪkɪt n. patrol of strikers; watch, escort; guardian, keeper; pointed peg, spike v. strike, protest, participate in a picket line; guard, watch over; fence in, enclose …
