Antonyms for picket
ˈpɪk ɪtpick·et

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

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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"

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1. picketnoun

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

How to use picket in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. Ron McInroy:

   Through our tears, we continue to picket and honor the solidarity of our fallen brother. But we do this with heavy hearts today.

3. 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.

4. Minister Louis Farrakhan:

   But when one of us shows some independence, look how you treating Beyoncé now, you gonna picket. You not going to offer her police protection? But the (Fruit of Islam, the security branch of his organization,) will.

5. Austin Beutner:

   I was asked yesterday by someone why I didn't just join teachers on the picket line, close our schools, and go to Sacramento( to) fight for more funding. Ninety percent of our funding comes from Sacramento, after all. ... It's a fair question, then I thought for a moment about Virgil Middle School and Telfair Elementary School.

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