picket /ˈpɪkɪt/ CET6+ TEM8 ( picketing, picketed, pickets )

• 1. 

  V-T/V-I When a group of people, usually trade union members, picket, or picket a place of work, they stand outside it in order to protest about something, to prevent people from going in, or to persuade the workers to join a strike. 聚集在…外抗议; 在…外设立罢工纠察队

  例：

  A few dozen employees picketed the company's headquarters.

  几十名雇员聚集在公司总部的外面示威抗议。

• 2. 

  N-COUNT Picket is also a noun. 示威抗议行为; 罢工纠察队

  例：

  ...forty demonstrators who have set up a twenty-four hour picket.

  …组建了一支24小时纠察队的40名示威者。

• 3. 

  N-COUNT Pickets are people who are picketing a place of work. 示威抗议者; 罢工纠察队员

  例：

  The strikers agreed to remove their pickets and hold talks with the company.

  罢工者同意撤走纠察队员，和公司进行会谈。