picket

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…外抗議; 在…外設立罷工糾察隊

A few dozen employees picketed the company's headquarters. 幾十名雇員聚集在公司縂部的外麪示威抗議。

2. N-COUNT Picket is also a noun. 示威抗議行爲; 罷工糾察隊

...forty demonstrators who have set up a twenty-four hour picket. …組建了一支24小時糾察隊的40名示威者。

3. N-COUNT Pickets are people who are picketing a place of work. 示威抗議者; 罷工糾察隊員

The strikers agreed to remove their pickets and hold talks with the company. 罷工者同意撤走糾察隊員，和公司進行會談。