(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
When a group of people, usually trade union members, ~ 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 ~ed the power stations...
100 union members and supporters ~ed outside.
VERB: V n, V
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Picket is also a noun.
...forty demonstrators who have set up a twenty four hour ~.
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~ing
There was widespread ~ing of mines where work was continuing.
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2.
Pickets are people who are ~ing a place of work.
The strikers agreed to remove their ~s and hold talks with the government.
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