[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a post, stake, pale, or peg that is used in a fence or barrier, to fasten down a tent, etc.", "a person stationed by a union or the like outside a factory, store, mine, etc., in order to dissuade or prevent workers or customers from entering it during a strike.", "a person engaged in any similar demonstration, as against a government's policies or actions, before an embassy, office building, construction project, etc.", "Military.a soldier or detachment of soldiers placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance.", "Navy, Air Force.an aircraft or ship performing similar sentinel duty."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to enclose within a picket fence or stockade, as for protection, imprisonment, etc.:to picket a lawn; to picket captives.", "to fasten or tether to a picket.", "to place pickets in front of or around (a factory, store, mine, embassy, etc.), as during a strike or demonstration.", "Military.to guard, as with pickets.to post as a picket.", "to guard, as with pickets.", "to post as a picket."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to stand or march as a picket."]}]