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picketer

/pik-it/US // ˈpɪk ɪt //UK // (ˈpɪkɪt) //

纠察员,挑选者,挑剔的人,挑剔者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a post, stake, pale, or peg that is used in a fence or barrier, to fasten down a tent, etc.
    • : a person stationed by a union or the like outside a factory, store, mine, etc., in order to dissuade or prevent workers or customers from entering it during a strike.
    • : a person engaged in any similar demonstration, as against a government's policies or actions, before an embassy, office building, construction project, etc.
    • : Military. a soldier or detachment of soldiers placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance.
    • : Navy, Air Force. an aircraft or ship performing similar sentinel duty.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to enclose within a picket fence or stockade, as for protection, imprisonment, etc.: to picket a lawn; to picket captives.
    • : to fasten or tether to a picket.
    • : to place pickets in front of or around, as during a strike or demonstration.
    • : Military. to guard, as with pickets.to post as a picket.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to stand or march as a picket.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Groups like the San Francisco Parent Coalition have sprung up since last summer to help organize protests and picket school board meetings as a way to press for policy changes.

  • Undeterred, they regrouped in the baggage area, then went to Target to get supplies to make picket signs.

  • When we think of LGBTQ activism in the 1970s, we tend to think of picket signs, protest marches, and people carrying megaphones – but it also took other forms.

  • Strandf could photograph anything from a blind woman to a picket fence and make the image indelible.

  • A bar chart showing quarterly GDP growth resembles the teeth of a saw, not a picket fence.

  • After the march, the political convoy of picket-signs makes its way to a grandiose fast-food joint for pizza and beer.

  • The one we parked in front of had an Astroturf lawn and white picket fence.

  • She leapt over the brand-new white picket fence we built for her in a single bound.

  • Many of them were wounded and the worst of these were put into a picket boat which had just that moment come along.

  • Hicks was puttering around the fire, evidently cooking supper, and Gregory was moving the picket rope of his horse to fresh grass.

  • It was therefore deemed advisable to picket the horses close to the tent, between it and the fire.

  • Left on a picket boat with Birdie to board my destroyer to an accompaniment of various denominations of projectiles.

  • Without warning, we found ourselves foul of a picket-line, and the vague forms of grazing horses loomed close by.