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Word: picket
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Meaning:
Noun:
- A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
- A stake driven into the ground.
- A tool in mountaineering, that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
- historical A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
- military Soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance. It can also refer to any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
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Verb:
- to protest organized by a labour union. Typically in front of the location of employment.
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