picket
抗議の見張り
解説 Definition
picket は、労働争議や抗議活動で、職場や建物の前に立って抗議の意思を示す人を指す名詞です。日本語では「ピケを張る人」「抗議の見張り」のように訳され、通行人や労働者に訴えかける役割を持ちます。
A person stationed outside a workplace or other location during a strike or protest to display opposition, communicate a cause, and encourage others not to enter, work, or cross the protest line.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
この語義では、ストライキや抗議で職場・建物の前に立ち、看板などで訴える「人」を指す。a picket stood outside、organize a picket の場面で覚える。元は尖った杭、さらに軍の歩哨を指した語で、「一定地点に立って見張る人」から抗議活動の人へ意味が移った。picket fence の杭とは同じ語。
Picture one person standing outside a factory gate with a sign during a strike: that person is a picket. Learn phrases such as a picket outside the factory and workers organizing a picket. The historical image is useful: a picket was first a pointed stake and later a soldier or small guard unit stationed at a position. The idea of someone posted at a fixed place then developed into the labor-protest sense. Do not automatically equate it with protester, which is broader; a picket is specifically stationed at or near the location being targeted.
例文
A picket stood outside the factory gate with a sign.
抗議の見張りが工場の門の外でプラカードを持って立っていた。
The workers organized a picket during the strike.
労働者たちはストライキ中に抗議の見張りを組織した。
Police asked the picket to keep the entrance clear.
警察は抗議の見張りに入口を空けておくよう求めた。
picket の類義語・関連語
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picket の語源・成り立ち Etymology
フランス語「piquet（尖った杭）」が語源で、動詞piquer（刺す）から派生。軍事用語で歩哨の杭囲いを意味し、そこから労働争議で工場前に立つ見張り行為を指すようになった。関連語：pike（槍）、pique（刺激する）。
Picket comes from French piquet, meaning a pointed stake, related to piquer, “to prick or pierce.” The word entered military vocabulary for a stake and then for a soldier or small body of troops stationed on guard. From this sense of being posted at a particular place, it developed in labor disputes to mean a person stationed outside a workplace to publicize a strike or discourage entry. The wooden slat in a picket fence preserves the older stake sense.
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