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View definitions for picket

picket

noun as in post of structure

noun as in person who demonstrates for cause

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noun as in person acting as guard

verb as in protest against, for cause

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Example Sentences

If the 5.5% increase is not implemented, Ms Speed said there would be a "very difficult environment" with health care workers "on the picket lines post Christmas".

From BBC

He was also politically active on social media, reposting content from Russian opposition figures and occasionally sharing his own political content, including a video in which he can be seen holding a solo picket in support of late opposition politician Alexei Navalny.

From BBC

Guillén: I think it’s a good lesson for everyone in life that sometimes we want something so bad — like 2.5 kids, white picket fence, marriage at a certain age — but some things just are not for everyone.

Civilian clerks sat behind wooden desks, and a security control picket was manned by a single prison guard.

From Slate

Passages that inspired Christians to open settlement houses to shelter poor city dwellers and join union picket lines to fight against decrepit working conditions also formed the core of Martin Luther King Jr.'s argument that pastors cannot preach the glories of heaven while ignoring the earthly hell of racialized oppression.

From Salon

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