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# picket

noun (a picket, pickets); verb (picket, pickets, picketed, picketing)

«picket» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A pointed wooden stake, used in a fence: a «picket fence». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picket/#m1)
2. (work) A group of workers on strike who stand outside their workplace to protest and ask others not to go in: a «picket line». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picket/#m2)
3. (verb) To stand outside a place to protest. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picket/#m3)
4. (old, army) A small group of soldiers on guard. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picket/#m4)
5. To picket an animal means to tie it to a stake for the night. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picket/#m5)

### In the lessons

In adult-life lessons pickets appear when workers strike for fair pay: «Don't cross the picket line.» In stories and in the USA, a white picket fence stands for a neat family home. Phrases: «picket line», «white picket fence», «cross a picket line», «on the picket line».

### Examples

- The house has a white picket fence. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picket/#x1)
- The nurses stood on the picket line in the cold. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picket/#x2)
- Workers picketed the factory gates. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picket/#x3)
- Mum said she would not cross the picket line. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picket/#x4)
- The picket held signs asking for fair pay. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picket/#x5)
- One picket in the fence was broken. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picket/#x6)
- “Yes,” said Two Tails, with a laugh all up his trunk. “I’m picketed for the night. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picket/#x7)

### Note

Countable noun; regular verb (picketed, picketing; one t). «Picket line» is the line of striking workers. Not to be confused with «pickle» or «ticket».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «picket» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picket/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«picket» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/picket.html) on Mova free.