Defenition of the word picket
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Defenition of the word picket
- a person employed to watch for something to happen
- a vehicle performing sentinel duty
- a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
- a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
- fasten with a picket; "picket the goat
- serve as pickets or post pickets; "picket a business to protest the lay-offs"
- a wooden strip forming part of a fence
- fasten with a picket; "picket the goat"
- a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- fasten with a picket
- serve as pickets or post pickets
Synonyms for the word picket
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- besiege
- blockade
- fence post
- lookout
- lookout man
- pale
- peg
- post
- protest
- rod
- scout
- sentinel
- sentry
- stake
- strike
- strike against
- strike for
- tent stake
- watch
Similar words in the picket
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- picket
- picket's
- picketed
- picketing
- pickets
- pickett
- pickett's
Meronymys for the word picket
Hyponyms for the word picket
Hypernyms for the word picket
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- demonstrate
- demonstrator
- detachment
- fasten
- fix
- march
- military vehicle
- protester
- secure
- security guard
- strip
- torture
- torturing
- vehicle
- watcher
- watchman
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