| 词汇 | picket |
| 释义 | picket noun[ C ] uk /ˈpɪk.ɪt/ us /ˈpɪk.ɪt/ a worker or group of workers who protest outside a building to prevent other workers from going inside, especially because they have a disagreement with their employers: （罢工时阻止其他工人上班的）纠察队员;纠察队 There were pickets outside the factory gates.工厂门外有一些纠察队员。 tacojim/E+/GettyImages an occasion on which a picket happens: 罢工纠察时期 The union organized a month-long picket.工会组织了长达一个月的罢工纠察。 Industrial action abstain anti-strike blackleg cooling-off period demarcation dispute job action lightning strike lock lock someone out lockout on strikephrase stoppage strike pay strikebound strikebreaker strikebreaking striker sympathy union-bashing walk Related wordpicketing picket verb[ I or T ] uk /ˈpɪk.ɪt/ us /ˈpɪk.ɪt/ to act as or take part in a picket: They picketed the burger restaurant and handed out leaflets to potential customers. He was not surprised when his office was picketed. Demonstrators picketed and chanted outside the company's annual meeting. More than 100 protesters picketed the hotel on Saturday as part of a nationwide boycott. Workers had picketed at the plant for more than two weeks, mainly over health-care costs. Industrial action abstain anti-strike blackleg cooling-off period demarcation dispute job action lightning strike lock lock someone out lockout on strikephrase stoppage strike pay strikebound strikebreaker strikebreaking striker sympathy union-bashing walk picket | American Dictionarypicket noun[ C ] us/ˈpɪk·ɪt/(alsopicketer, us/ˈpɪk·ɪ·t̬ər/) a person or group of people who have a disagreement with a company, usually the one where they work, and who walk around in a line outside the place of business to tell other people not to enter until the problem is solved: Three pickets stood at the factory gate. picketverb[ I/T ]us/ˈpɪk·ɪt/ [ I/T ]The women picketed (outside) the factory for three months. picket | Business Englishpicket noun[ C ] HR, WORKPLACEuk /ˈpɪkɪt/us (alsopicket line) a group of people who stand outside an organization's building holding signs to protest against something. The people who protest are often employees who disagree with the management: The rail union is planning a 150-person picket of the terminal for two days next week. The new government was determined to avoid a return to the old days of industrial action and mass picket lines. Most union members were reluctant to cross the picket line. stand on/walk the picket lineWe spent two weeks walking the picket line, trying to get better benefits. Workers staged a picket outside the factory gates. Workers picked up their picket signs and began their protest. Compare strikenoun UK a single person in a picket line: Police escorts were provided for tanker drivers who had experienced intimidation by pickets. Compare picketer See alsoflying picket picket verb[ I or T ] HR, WORKPLACEukus to show an organization that you are not satisfied with them by standing outside their building and trying to prevent people from entering and doing business with them : The firm's annual general meeting was picketed by union members angry at the decision to cut jobs. The group has decided not to picket until after the talks. Compare strikeverb picketingnoun[ U ]uk /ˈpɪkɪtɪŋ/ us /-ṱɪŋ/ The proposed new law would ban picketing. See alsosecondary picketing Examples of picketpicket In the end, picketing was much reduced from the summer of 1977. The police decided to allow only two pickets at each of the two entrances to the works. While the mobilisation of large numbers of pickets may be advantageous to the union's cause, it also invites problems of disorganisation and indiscipline. Up until then, the number of pickets present had been small. The pickets knew what to expect: they'd been warned it could turn nasty, and it did. Finally, in a classic piece of understatement, viewers are informed that the cavalry charge" clearly worried the pickets". The courts have invented new laws, as in the new liabilities to restrain picketing during the miners' strike. During the strike, the police found them to be a useful device with which to restrict the freedom of movement of pickets. The following year, a police cordon prevented pickets from approaching a coach carrying workers out of a site. Telephone links with local police camps were snapped; attempts were made to blow up police pickets with gas cylinders. Further violent demonstrations by mass pickets led to £525,000 additional fines being imposed. When mass picketing continued a further £100,000 fine was levied and the union's assets were sequestrated. As the horses came back, pickets threw half-bricks at them. Secondary picketing, that is people picketing premises at which they were not employed, could be in breach of the civil, not the criminal, law. The first cavalry charge came a few minutes later and it clearly worried the pickets. See all examples of picket These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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