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What is the noun for picketer?

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picket
  1. A stake driven into the ground.
  2. (historical) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
  3. A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
  4. (military) Soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance. It can also refer to any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
  5. A sentry. Can be used figuratively.
  6. A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
  7. (card game) The card game piquet.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “A single white picket is the only man-made thing still standing upright following the storm.”
      “The company offered negotiations, but only if we lifted the mass picket.”
      “The arrests occurred on day one of the strike, after pickets refused to allow delivery trucks driven by non-union members in to the premises.”
picketer
  1. Someone who pickets; one participating in a demonstration or posted on a picket line.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The court found that Ely, in addition to being an officer of the union, was acting also as a picketer on Feb.”
      “From the abortion-clinic picketer to the suicide bomber, its disciples are the deadly and the deluded.”
      “Just as our observer passed, the picketer decided to call it a night, took off the cards, rolled them up and tied them with a string.”
picketing
picketings
picketers
  1. plural of picketer
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The picketers had been protesting for more than a month, demanding jobs, with no response from government authorities.”
      “The injunction also prohibits picketers from blocking the scabs' entry to the plant.”
      “Thousands of other workers who were approaching the factory to start the morning's work joined the picketers and began a strike.”
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