1a person or group of people who stand outside a workplace or other venue as a protest or to try to persuade others not to enter during a strike:forty pickets were arrested
a blockade of a workplace or other venue staged by a picket:the workers walked out, mounting mass pickets at the factory gates
2 (also picquet) a soldier or small group of soldiers performing a particular duty, especially one sent out to watch for the enemy:when would this headlong advance run into the enemy pickets?a picket of soldiers fired a volley over the coffin
3 [usually as modifier] a pointed wooden stake driven into the ground, typically to form a fence or to tether a horse:a cedar-picket stockade
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act as a picket outside (a workplace or other venue):strikers picketed the newspaper’s main building
