Meaning & use
Picketed
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Stood or demonstrated outside a workplace or venue, typically to protest or support a strike.
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Workers picketed the factory gates for weeks demanding better pay.
Activists picketed outside the courthouse during the trial.
A note on using this word
Comes from 'picket,' originally a pointed stake, later applied to a line of protesters guarding a strike.
Words with a similar meaning
protesteddemonstrated
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Another way to use it
2. verb
Enclosed or fenced an area with pointed stakes.
The soldiers picketed the perimeter of the camp for the night.
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