Definizione monolingua

picket

picket (third-person singular simple present pickets, present participle picketing, simple past and past participle picketed)

1. to protest organized by a labour union. Typically in front of the location of employment.

picket (plural pickets)

1. A stake driven into the ground.

   A picket fence.

2. (historical) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
3. A tool in mountaineering, that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
4. (military) Soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance. It can also refer to any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.

   Pickets warned of enemy troops approaching from the west.

5. A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.

   Pickets normally endeavor to be non-violent.

Definizione dizionario picket

paletto

picchettare

picchetto

Altri significati:

A stake driven into the ground.

(military) Soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance. It can also refer to any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.

a protest organized by a labour union

to protest organized by a labour union. Typically in front of the location of employment.

A tool in mountaineering, that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.

A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.

(historical) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.

a stake driven into the ground

Soldiers or troops