picketing
B1CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The stationing of striking workers outside a workplace to protest and discourage others from entering.
The injunction limited peaceful picketing to six people at each factory gate.
Business noun
Standing outside a workplace during a strike to protest and discourage others from entering.
Peaceful picketing at the gates persuaded most drivers to turn their lorries around.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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