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picket
noun as in person who demonstrates for cause
noun as in person acting as guard
verb as in protest against, for cause
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Example Sentences
‘Gen Z would rather invest in index funds and travel the world than tie themselves to a 30-year mortgage and a picket fence.’
It’s enclosed by two barriers—a white picket fence on the interior, and the carnivorous thicket on the exterior.
Unite claimed a growing number of agency staff were refusing to cross the picket lines of striking bin workers due to "unsustainable workloads" and a bullying workplace culture at the council's refuse department.
And he warned his members would only leave the picket line if there was a major emergency – such as a mass casualty event.
The number of workers who remain out on the picket line has dwindled to 28 from the 120 who walked out at the beginning of the strike.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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