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The correct spelling is picketing.
How to pronounce picketing
verb
Say it like: Pik-eti-ng
The correct spelling is picketing. To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment. For example: "to picket a horse"
Usage Examples
“to picket a horse”
“picketings and demonstrations”
Meanings
verb
- 1.To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
- 2.To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
- 3.To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
- 4.To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
- 5.To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
noun
- 1.The act of one who pickets (in any sense).
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