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单词 counterpicket
释义

counterpicket

noun

coun·​ter·​pick·​et ˈkau̇n-tər-ˌpi-kət How to pronounce counterpicket (audio)
variants or counter-picket
plural counterpickets or counter-pickets
: a person who acts as a picket (see picket entry 1 sense 3a) to counter or oppose a demonstration or protest
Waitresses picketing … were met with counterpickets paid by the employers. Alice Kessler Harris
also : a demonstration or protest staged to counter or oppose another
Some anti-union workers mounted a counterpicket.
counterpicket verb, transitive + intransitive
or counter-picket
counterpicketed or counter-picketed; counterpicketing or counter-picketing
The rally, on the waterfront, was counter-picketed by supporters of the project, some of whom waved placards from a flotilla of 23 boats in the harbour itself. Tim O'Brien

Word History

First Known Use

1933, in the meaning defined above

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