0 a worker or group of workers who protest outside a building to prevent other workers from going inside, especially because they have a disagreement with their employers:
2 a person or group of people who have a disagreement with a company, usually the one where they work, and who walk around in a line outside the place of business to tell other people not to enter until the problem is solved:
3 a group of people who stand outside an organization's building holding signs to protest against something. The people who protest are often employees who disagree with the management:
The rail union is planning a 150-person picket of the terminal for two days next week.
The new government was determined to avoid a return to the old days of industrial action and mass picket lines.
stand on/walk the picket line We spent two weeks walking the picket line, trying to get better benefits.
Workers picked up their picket signs and began their protest.
4 a single person in a picket line:
Police escorts were provided for tanker drivers who had experienced intimidation by pickets.
5 to show an organization that you are not satisfied with them by standing outside their building and trying to prevent people from entering and doing business with them :
Demonstrators picketed and chanted outside the company's annual meeting.
More than 100 protesters picketed the hotel on Saturday as part of a nationwide boycott.
Workers had picketed at the plant for more than two weeks, mainly over health-care costs.
Television and press coverage of the conference concentrated more on the small group of pickets boycotting the conference than on the sanguine reports from the press officers.
While the occasional ' ' victory march,' ' usually numbering several hundred people, was staged, picketing squads were always small, indicating that few people made a long-term commitment to the movement.
I have advised hospital authorities to report to the police any instance of unlawful action by pickets.
They have mobilised every available officer in order to disperse excessive numbers of pickets.
The conduct of its members inside the conference hall was shockingly rude, and outside the building the demonstrators and pickets were disgracefully violent.
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