a person or group of people who stand outside the entrance to a building in order to protest about something, especially in order to stop people from entering a factory, etc. during a strike; an occasion at which this happens （罷工期間糾察妥協分子的）糾察員，糾察隊；罷工警戒 Five pickets were arrested by police. 五名糾察隊員被警方逮捕。 I was on picket duty at the time. 當時我正執行罷工的糾察工作。 a mass picket of the factory 工廠的大規模罷工糾察隊
WordfinderExtra ExamplesTopics Social issuesc2, Working lifec2They organized a mass picket of the governor's palace. 他們組織了總督府的大規模罷工糾察隊。 angry people with picket signs 帶着糾察標志的憤怒人群
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- mass
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a soldier or group of soldiers guarding a military base （軍營的）警戒哨，警戒隊，哨兵 a pointed piece of wood that is fixed in the ground, especially as part of a fence （尤指栅欄的）尖木樁，尖板條 a picket fence 尖板條栅欄
Word Originlate 17th cent. (denoting a pointed stake, on which a soldier was required to stand on one foot as a military punishment): from French piquet ‘pointed stake’, from piquer ‘to prick’, from pic ‘pike’.