Synonyms for picket
ˈpɪk ɪtpick·et

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1. lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout, picketnoun

   a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

   Synonyms:
   piquet, ticker, sentry, pale, scout, observation post, observatory, watch, pathfinder, finder, talent scout, lookout station, guide, outlook, lookout, spotter, observation tower, vigil, lookout man, discoverer, sentinel

2. picketnoun

   a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack

   Synonyms:
   spotter, lookout man, lookout, piquet, sentry, watch, sentinel, pale, scout

3. picketnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   spotter, lookout man, lookout, piquet, sentry, watch, sentinel, pale, scout

4. picketnoun

   a vehicle performing sentinel duty

   Synonyms:
   spotter, lookout man, lookout, piquet, sentry, watch, sentinel, pale, scout

5. picket, palenoun

   a wooden strip forming part of a fence

   Synonyms:
   spotter, lookout man, lookout, piquet, sentry, watch, sentinel, pale, scout

6. picket, piquetverb

   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

   Synonyms:
   spotter, lookout man, lookout, piquet, sentry, watch, sentinel, pale, scout

7. picketverb

   serve as pickets or post pickets

   "picket a business to protest the layoffs"

8. picketverb

   fasten with a picket

   "picket the goat"

Matched Categories

1. • Demonstrate
   • Demonstrator
   • Detachment
   • Fasten
   • Military
   • Military Vehicle
   • Watchman

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1. picketnoun

   Synonyms:
   stake, pale

2. picketnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Mil.) sentinel (on the outposts), guard, watchman, guardsman, sentry

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1. picketnoun

   Synonyms:
   stake, pale, paling, sentry, guard, watchman, sentinel

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1. List of paraphrases for "picket":

   picketing, pitting

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1. Democrats Rep. Keith Ellison:

   When I'm on picket lines around the country, people tell me they're protesting because they're working harder than ever and still can't make ends meet, the Progressive Caucus stands in solidarity with the working Americans putting in longer hours and seeing smaller paychecks. In the richest nation in the world, no business should be able to pay so little their workers are forced to find second and third jobs to feed their kids.

2. Edward Irving Koch:

   If you don't like the president, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents.

3. Justice Potter Stewart:

   The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver a sermon, to picket, to parade, or to assemble, it need not be honored when it’s invalid on its face.

4. Aimee Bartek-Regnier:

   My white picket fence, my trellis, everything you'd identify my house with was gone, we're just waiting on a picture so that we can have our closure that way. I've known since Friday that our house was gone.

5. The Chicago teachers union:

   Short of some late-breaking change, *all* CTU members will begin working remotely tomorrow, Wednesday, January 27. And if CPS retaliates against members for exercising their right to a safe workplace, *all* CTU members will stop working on Thursday and set up picket lines at their schools.