picketed
Carried a sign
Picketed is the past tense of picket.
Workers picket when they stand outside a workplace during a strike, often carrying signs to discourage others from entering: The union picketed the factory for three weeks.
More broadly, to picket is to stand in protest outside any location.
A picket is also a pointed stake driven into the ground, so picketed can mean enclosed or secured with such stakes: The horses were picketed near the camp.
Public protest participants
- placardsSigns carried at demonstrations
- strikeForceful impact or stoppage
- unionJoining into one
- rallyGathering for a cause
march · chanting · boycott · grievances · dissent · solidarity · walkout · labor
demonstrators
Public protest participants
rally · march · chanting · boycott · grievances · dissent · solidarity · walkout · labor · workers
posts
Published online content
enclosure · barrier · railing · whitewash · spaced · pointed · wooden · boundary · yard · garden
sentry
Guard on duty
stationed · perimeter · camp · surveillance · advance · warning · scouts · duty · deployment
picketedacquiesced
Agreed without protest
submitted · complied · stood down · ignored · tolerated
picketednegotiated
Reached terms through discussion
collaborated · scabbed · cooperated · worked through · settled
- picket fenceSlatted wooden yard barrier
- white picket fenceTraditional property divider
- picket lineProtesting workers' boundary
- picket signHandheld demonstration board
- picketing workersEmployees protesting at worksite
- picket dutyGuard or protest post