Definition of picket
Etymology
From French piquet, from piquer (“to pierce”).
Pronunciation
Noun
picket (plural pickets)
- A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
Pickets normally endeavor to be non-violent.
Verb
picket (third-person singular simple present pickets, present participle picketing, simple past and past participle picketed)
- to protest organized by a labour union. Typically in front of the location of employment.
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Translation of picket in Malay
Piket
Noun
protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike
- Piket
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