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picketing

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

纠察队,纠察,纠察工作,抗议

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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.

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Examples

  • In one ad he walks a dog along the sidewalk in front of suburban homes with picket fences.

  • Many workers’ groups, blocked from picket lines and protests due to pandemic restrictions, have been driven online.

  • Recently, studies of the picket fence’s color have cast doubt on its origins.

  • This session was thusly canceled and tickets were refunded when Ocasio-Cortez and Warren announced they would not cross the picket line, would have taken place on Monday night.

  • There’s this game-of-life kind of thing — you’re raised to believe that you need the nice house with the picket fence, the car.

  • And sure enough, before long, immigration activists in North Carolina were picketing Hagan at campaign events.

  • The Klan is standing up to the 'God Hates Fags' protestors in light of the WBC's picketing of military funerals.

  • Perhaps the saddest note came from an Alabama paper: "No Walmart workers in attendance at Mobile Walmart picketing".

  • Miners who were working under killer conditions were shot at while picketing.

  • It also legalised peaceful picketing, that particular form of persuasion with which a democratic age has become only too familiar.

  • Under one of these trees they reined up after a ride of two hours, and picketing their horses, prepared breakfast.

  • The Rappahannock river flowed between the Yankee and the Rebel armies, each picketing its own side of the stream.

  • Usually injunctions were sought to prevent not violence, but strikes, picketing, or boycotting.

  • Picketing is illegal when accompanied by violence, threats, intimidation, and coercion.

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