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picketer

picketer

3 4.9
A person who gathers outside a workplace to protest or support a cause
  • noun
  • /ˈpɪkɪtər/
translation icon : manifestante
  • Ms. Vernon was one of the first White House picketers arrested for demanding that women receive the right to vote.
  • two picketers

So yeah, I did go to Greenpoint, Brooklyn today to go join some of the picketers.

Examples

  • The judge asks the two picketers to stand up.

    Academic text (1995)

  • Some picketers entered and exhorted patients to support them.

    Academic text (2001)

  • You think those picketers are out there beyond the lights?

    The Bone Eater (2008)

  • Did the picketers give you any trouble?

    The Bone Eater (2008)

  • Next, the picketers went to another clinic.

    Academic text (2001)

  • Then two picketers with their picket signs held very high walk up to the lawyer.

    Academic text (1995)

  • The two picketers ask, "What is an 'injunction'?" The lawyer explains.

    Academic text (1995)

  • The police arrested the white-haired professor when he insisted that the picketers had a legal right to occupy the sidewalk.

    Academic text (2001)

  • On the nearby periphery, picketers—half concerned citizens, half down-and-outers—are marching the sidewalks, keeping a candlelight vigil.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • The picketers stood outside the factory gates to demand better working conditions.

Synonyms

protester
vspicketer
328 2.9

A person who shows strong disagreement in public, often in a group

can stand or march outside a place alone or with others, not only groups
demonstrator
vspicketer
159 3.4

A person who joins a public protest to show support or opposition

focuses on being outside a place, often a workplace, rather than any protest
protestor
vspicketer
  • US
57 3.0

A person who joins others in public to show strong disagreement

focuses on standing or marching outside a place, often at workplaces
picket
vspicketer
39 5.6

A person who stands outside a workplace to protest and stop others from entering

is broader, covering any person standing or marching outside for protest or support
marchman
vspicketer
  • UK
6.5

A person who joins a march to protest

may also be stationary, standing outside a place rather than only marching

How Active

striker
18 3.2
picketer
3 4.9
protester
328 2.9
supporter
817 1.0
sympathizer
37 4.8

Surface Forms

picketer singular
picketers plural

Morphology

picketer = picket (transparent) = picket + er

Agentive '-er' is productively added to the verb 'picket' to form 'picketer', a straightforward agent noun.

Etymology

Picketer comes from picket + -er, where -er means 'a person who does something'. The older word picket first meant 'a small stake' and later a soldier 'on watch', and people standing in a line outside a workplace were called pickets. So a picketer is someone who stands or marches at a protest.