to picket
13
4.8
- verb
- /ˈpɪkɪt/
:
hacer piquete
- Workers decided to picket outside the factory to demand better wages and working conditions.
And what they first started was protesting picketing whenever a farmer or a contractor treated workers badly.
- And what they first started was protesting picketing whenever a farmer or a contractor treated workers badly.
- But what I did was I would go on these picketing the picket line, and I would tag the older writers.
Examples
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The collegians raised funds, gave speeches, picketed, and observed arrests in an effort to protect the strikers from police brutality.
Academic text (1994) -
A busload of individuals picketed in front of a PMG clinic.
Academic text (2001) -
- Is he likely to picket my office?
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To picket the big, bad chain store...
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You have every right to picket, but it's gotta be outside the main gate.
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Chicago public school teachers hit the streets to picket Monday during their first strike since 1987.
Blog text (15) -
A handful of protesters picket the entrance carrying signs.
Fiction book (1997) -
In support of the union, other unions working at Lindenwood picketed alongside them.
Blog text (31) -
Hundreds of women picketed the shops, and an estimated 2,000 participated in the boycott.
Academic text (1996) -
Along with others, we marched, picketed, wrote letters and articles, talked to groups, and held rallies.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
578
2.5
A public gathering of people who show strong disagreement, like a march
1
5.0
To stand or march outside a building to show you are against something
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
27
4.2
A line of workers outside a workplace during a strike who stand to protest and stop others entering
23
2.0
A row of upright wooden or metal boards with spaces that mark the edge of a yard
How Active
26
4.9
74
3.2
283
3.2
13
4.8
133
3.2
619
2.4
Surface Forms
Etymology
To picket as a verb meaning to protest comes from the people called pickets who stood at the entrance of a workplace; the action was named after those people. That's why to picket is to stand or march outside a place of work to show disagreement.