picketing Definition

picket
noun

1. A person or group of people stationed outside a place of work to persuade other employees not to go in during a strike.

Thesaurus: demonstrator, protestor, striker, dissenter.
2. A body of soldiers on patrol or sentry duty.
3. A stake fixed in the ground, eg as part of a fence.

verb picketed, picketing

1. To station pickets or act as a picket (noun 1) at (a factory, etc).

Thesaurus: protest, demonstrate, boycott, strike, blockade.
2. To guard or patrol with, or as, a military picket.
3. To fence (an area, etc) with pickets (noun 3).

Etymology: 18c: from French piquet, diminutive of pic pick².