picket
noun /ˈpɪkɪt/
/ˈpɪkɪt/
- 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
（罢工期间纠察妥协分子的）纠察员，纠察队；罢工警戒 - Five pickets were arrested by police.
五名纠察队员被警方逮捕。 - I was on picket duty at the time.
当时我正执行罢工的纠察工作。 - a mass picket of the factory
工厂的大规模罢工纠察队
Wordfinder- ballot
- closed shop
- collective bargaining
- industrial action
- labour
- picket
- protest
- representative
- strike
- union
Topics Social issuesc2, Working lifec2- They organized a mass picket of the governor's palace.
他们组织了总督府的大规模罢工纠察队。 - angry people with picket signs
带着纠察标志的愤怒人群
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- mass
- flying
- organize
- duty
- line
- sign
- …
- Five pickets were arrested by police.
- a soldier or group of soldiers guarding a military base
（军营的）警戒哨，警戒队，哨兵 - a pointed piece of wood that is fixed in the ground, especially as part of a fence
（尤指栅栏的）尖木桩，尖板条 - a picket fence
尖板条栅栏
- a picket fence
词源late 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’.