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# picket

«picket» in Mova's school dictionary: **A pointed wooden stake, used in a fence: a «picket fence»** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) A pointed wooden stake, used in a fence: a «picket fence». [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picket/#m2)

3) (verb) To stand outside a place to protest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picket/#m3)

4) (old, army) A small group of soldiers on guard. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picket/#m5)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picket/#x1)
- The nurses stood on the picket line in the cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picket/#x2)
- Workers picketed the factory gates. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picket/#x3)
- Mum said she would not cross the picket line. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picket/#x4)
- The picket held signs asking for fair pay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picket/#x5)
- One picket in the fence was broken. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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».

### In the corpora

- [There are also ways workers stand up for themselves: unions, strikes, picket lines and tribunals.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/4/)
- [A picket line is striking workers standing outside their workplace with signs, peacefully asking others not to go in.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/4-when-work-goes-wrong/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «picket» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picket/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.