Picket meaning

What does “picket” mean? Definitions, examples, synonyms and opposites.

“picket” is a noun and verb with 8 meanings. Its most common meaning is: a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event.

picket

noun

  1. a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

  2. a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack

  3. a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work

  4. a vehicle performing sentinel duty

  5. a wooden strip forming part of a fence

    Synonymspale
  6. a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake

    Synonymspiquet

verb

  1. serve as pickets or post pickets

    “picket a business to protest the layoffs”

  2. fasten with a picket

    “picket the goat”

Source: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University