transcription, транскрипция: [ pɪkɪt ]
( pickets, picketing, picketed)
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When a group of people, usually trade union members, picket a place of work, they stand outside it in order to protest about something, to prevent people from going in, or to persuade the workers to join a strike.
The miners went on strike and picketed the power stations...
100 union members and supporters picketed outside.
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Picket is also a noun.
...forty demonstrators who have set up a twenty four hour picket.
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• pick‧et‧ing
There was widespread picketing of mines where work was continuing.
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2.
Pickets are people who are picketing a place of work.
The strikers agreed to remove their pickets and hold talks with the government.
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