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.
We can complete it step by step however long the road is and it can't be completed however short the road is if you don't even mark your footprint.
Vi kan slutföra det steg för steg hur lång vägen än är och den kan inte slutföras hur kort vägen än är om du inte ens markerar ditt fotavtryck.