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- a person or group of people standing outside a place of work or other venue, protesting about something or trying to persuade others not to enter during a strike（罢工时在工厂外站着进行抗议或劝阻别人上班的）示威者, 抗议者; 纠察员; 纠察队。
1.1
- a blockade of a workplace or other venue staged by such a person or group纠察员（队）设置的障碍。
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- （亦作picquet）a small body of troops or a single soldier sent out to watch for the enemy警戒队; 警戒哨。
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- a soldier or party of soldiers performing a particular duty特勤兵; 特勤队：
a picket of soldiers fired a volley over the coffin.
一队特勤兵朝棺材上方排枪射击。
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- usu. as modifier a pointed wooden stake driven into the ground, typically to form a fence or palisade or to tether a horse（作篱笆或拴马用的）尖木桩, 尖板条。
(picketed, picketing)with obj.
- act as a picket outside (a place of work or other venue)担任纠察：
strikers picketed the newspaper's main building.
罢工者在报社主楼外担任纠察。
派生词
picketer
noun词源
late 17th cent. （denoting a pointed stake, on which a soldier was required to stand on one foot as a military punishment）： from French piquet 'pointed stake', from piquer 'to prick', from pic 'pike'.