Meaning

One who is being picketed..

Definitions by Sense

1. One who is being picketed.
2. Obsolete form of picotee.

Example Sentences

The picketee is given no choice , and neither is anyone who wishes to visit the picketee's premises or who has business there to attend to, or who would like to go there to work or deliver materials.

Then, the date is scheduled, the press is notified (both the electronic and paper press), signs are prepared, scheduling and logistics are arranged, the press is notified again on the day of picketing, everybody shows up, and a good time is ordinarily had by all, except, usually, the picketee, who can become variously infuriated or outraged.

There is no doubt that picketing, for example, is a vital prerogative of the freedom of expression; however, mass picketing; picketing that applies physical force to those who might wish to exercise their equal rights of freedom of expression by disregarding the picket line; certain kinds of picketing violative of a picketee's property rights or picketing utterly unrelated to a picketee's "operations"; or picketing in derogation of secondary boycott statutes is not.

The Gardeners divide it into Five Claſſes, which they diſtinguiſh by the Name of Picketees, Painted Ladies, Beazarts, Flakes, and Flames: The Flowers of the Picketees are always of a white Ground, ſpotted or pounced (as they call it) with Red or Purple […]

Sic flow’rs o’ sorts ane seldom sees, / Flecks, flames, bussards an’ picketees, / Wi’ strong carnations, like young trees, / To face the entry; […]

It appeared that the prisoner was cutting or plucking some picketees and carnations in Mr. Iner’s garden; some were cut and some were broken.

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Use picketee when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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