(n.) A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.
(n.) A pointed pale, used in marking fences.
(n.) A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket.
(n.) By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance.
(n.) A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
(n.) A game at cards. See Piquet.
(v. t.) To fortify with pointed stakes.
(v. t.) To inclose or fence with pickets or pales.
(v. t.) To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse.
(v. t.) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
(v. t.) To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nine out of 10 private sector workplaces have never seen a union rep, let alone a picket line; the number of days lost to strike action in recent years have been, barring a relatively small spike in 2011, at historic lows.
(2) Staff willing to return and cross a picket line would be allowed to extend their stay to spend time with their families.
(3) Sounds like the good – or rather bad – old days of the 1970s, when strikes and work-to-rule protests backed by picket lines went hand in hand with Daily Mail warnings of “the enemy within”.
(4) They see angry shouting Steve Hedley-style pickets at every station, braziers at every street corner, and such general industrial unrest that there is a run on the pound and a broken and dejected Coalition government is obliged to sue for peace and throw its policies into reverse.
(5) Thousands of junior doctors showed their support at more than 150 picket lines across England, demonstrating the strength of feeling amongst the profession.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kent and Canterbury junior doctors on the picket line.
(7) He has written, phoned, lobbied, picketed, pleaded, hassled, demonstrated and campaigned so that the case would not be abandoned and the people responsible for killing Daniel in the car park of the Golden Lion pub in March 1987 would never feel that they had got away with murder.
(8) When a fixation point moves under a row of identical targets at a speed of one target for each flash of a strobe, smooth apparent movement of the targets is seen (the "picket-fence illusion").
(9) Unite members mounted picket lines in the Heathrow area.
(10) Chris Tranchell cheerfully introduced himself as a flying picket, a one-man delegation from Hammersmith and Fulham trades council where he represents the actors' union, Equity.
(11) 11am: In Hull, striking presenters play a pre-recorded radio station "Strike FM" on the picket line, accomp-anied by a Dalek.
(12) IPCC will not investigate Orgreave police action during miners' strike Read more On that day in 1984, 8,000 miners who went to picket lorry drivers supplying coke to the steel industry were met by 6,000 police officers drawn from all over the country, commanded by South Yorkshire police.
(13) "The idea that the LA Times could be taken over by right-wing radical extremists just boggles the mind," said Glen Arnodo, staff director of the LA County Federation of Labor, as protestors prepared to picket.
(14) On Saturday it passed through Arizona, where it picketed the Phoenix offices of the Republican senator John McCain, whom it accuses of promoting “pro-invasion” legislation.
(15) • Propose that unlawful or intimidatory picketing should become a criminal as opposed to civil offence and new protections should be available for those workers unwilling to strike.
(16) Protesters also plan to picket that meeting, from which media have been excluded.
(17) Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers joined marches, rallies and picket lines across England and Wales on 10 July to protest against low pay and falling living standards.
(18) They met with the unions, they gave them flying pickets.
(19) The house was a haven amid the madness of the city: lily of the valley grew near our front gate, Virginia creeper decked the green picket fence.
(20) Picket lines were lightly staffed, with six people outside White City, the home of BBC Television, at lunchtime, and three at Broadcasting House, where the radio stations transmit from.
Ticket
Definition:
(v.) A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something.
(v.) A little note or notice.
(v.) A tradesman's bill or account.
(v.) A certificate or token of right of admission to a place of assembly, or of passage in a public conveyance; as, a theater ticket; a railroad or steamboat ticket.
(v.) A label to show the character or price of goods.
(v.) A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like.
(v.) A printed list of candidates to be voted for at an election; a set of nominations by one party for election; a ballot.
(v. t.) To distinguish by a ticket; to put a ticket on; as, to ticket goods.
(v. t.) To furnish with a tickets; to book; as, to ticket passengers to California.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 2013, the town’s municipal court generated $221,164 (or $387 for each of its residents), with much of the fees coming from ticketing non-residents.
(2) "It's a ticket that is going to win in order to bring out an agenda of transformation.
(3) So if you are, for example, going on maternity leave in 17 weeks' time you can ask the booking office for a 17-week season ticket, which will be cheaper than buying a series of monthlies and weeklies.
(4) Rawlins bought a stake in Stoke City in 2000, where he'd been a season ticket-holder from the age of five, after selling off his IT consultancy company and joined the board.
(5) Manchester United Would you vote in favour of a £30 cap on away tickets?
(6) Another was a mock-up of a speeding ticket for Mr G Bale, Campeón de Copa, for overtaking recklessly, crossing a continuous white line.
(7) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
(8) Train companies are making passengers pay disproportionate penalties for having the wrong ticket and criminalising people who have no intention of dodging fares, a government watchdog has warned.
(9) Like Donald Trump’s campaign today, the Know Nothings (who watered down their name to the “American Party” in 1856 when Fillmore ran for president on their ticket) appealed to those who saw native-born Americans losing out to immigrants.
(10) During Nicolas Sarkozy's unsuccessful 2012 re-election campaign she was mocked for not knowing the price of an underground train ticket (she said €4 instead of €1.70).
(11) "The soaring cost of air travel will ultimately be a small factor in increased rail fares, as the ONS said plane tickets pushed the inflation index higher.
(12) It went ahead with the hospitality on Monday and Tuesday – using around 96 tickets – but has called off all further formal entertainment.
(13) In 2004, fewer than 100,000 tickets were sold for arena standup gigs.
(14) Buy carnet tickets Carnets were introduced by First Capital Connect to offer slightly lower fares to those who travel into London two or three times a week, but not enough to make it cost-effective to buy a season ticket.
(15) But homewares, which Street calls the store chain's "point of fame", are well down as a result of fewer people moving house and therefore not popping in to John Lewis to order big-ticket items such as carpets, curtains and furniture.
(16) Last week, it emerged that the firm was sending out tickets to members of the public that were originally intended for Games sponsors.
(17) Yet here comes Bloomberg — a former Democrat turned Republican turned independent who many thought might run for president himself on a third-party ticket — throwing his support behind Obama , citing climate as the proximate reason for his hop off the fence: Our climate is changing.
(18) And I decided that the best way for me to come to America was to become a bodybuilding champion, because I knew that was the ticket the instant that I saw a magazine cover of my idol, Reg Park.
(19) Liverpool’s Ian Ayre urges fans to ‘look at facts’ over ticket prices Read more The FSF chief executive, Kevin Miles, who has been leading its Twenty’s Plenty campaign for a £20 cap, said: “We are incredibly disappointed to learn that a proposed cap on away ticket prices was voted down by the Premier League clubs yesterday in a secret ballot.
(20) • San Francisco fans may struggle to get hold of a ticket to their game in Seattle on Sunday, after the Seahawks restricted sales to just six US states and two Canadian provinces .