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Gherao vs Picket - What's the difference?

gherao | picket |

As nouns the difference between gherao and picket

is that gherao is (india) a protest in which a group of people surrounds a politician, building, etc until demands are met while picket is a stake driven into the ground.

As verbs the difference between gherao and picket

is that gherao is (india|transitive) to surround for this purpose while picket is to protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.

gherao

English

Noun

(wikipedia gherao) (en-noun)
  • (India) A protest in which a group of people surrounds a politician, building, etc. until demands are met.
  • * 2002 , Bharti Kirchner, Darjeeling , St. Martin's Press (2002), ISBN 0312286422, page 26:
    • They had done a gherao and trapped the manager in his office for a whole day.
  • * 2007 , Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy , Macmillan (2007), ISBN 9780330396110, page 425:
    • This was an invitation to strike: according to one estimate, there were more than 1,200 gheraos in the first six months of the first UF-LF government.
  • * 2011 , Arun Sinha, Nitish Kumar and the Rise of Bihar , Viking (2011), ISBN 9780670084593, page 40:
    • They led us in a mob to the administrative office of the Patna University, blockaded the main entrance and besieged the vice chancellor's office in a gherao

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (India) To surround for this purpose.
  • * 1996 , Kavery Nambisan, The Scent of Pepper , Penguin (2010), ISBN 9780140264432, page 215:
    • One day the city magistrate asked the army for help to curb a protest march by women Congress workers who had threatened to gherao the officials in the divisional office.
  • * 2006 , Shakuntala Devi, Employment of Labour and Rural Development , Sarup & Sons (2006), ISBN 8176257168, page 53:
    • In reply, the cultivators, apparently now protesting under the banner of the BKU gheraoed the power station.
  • * 2010 , B. G. Verghese, First Draft: Witness to the Making of Modern India , Tranquebar Press (2010), ISBN 9789380283760, unnumbered page:
    • Further incensed by the findings of two Citizen's Inquiry Committees that he had set up to probe the earlier police firings in Gaya and Patna, JP now announced a programme that involved picketing the Assembly, gheraoing the residences of MLAs,

    picket

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A stake driven into the ground.
  • (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.
  • A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
  • (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.
  • * 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 59:
    • So confident was he that he ignored the warning of his two British advisers to post pickets to watch the river, and even withdrew those they had placed there.
  • A sentry. Can be used figuratively.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , chapter=26, title= The Dust of Conflict , passage=Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket , and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them.}}
  • A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
  • * , chapter=22
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}
  • (card games) The card game piquet.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
  • To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
  • To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
    • to picket a horse
  • To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
  • (obsolete) To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

    • Derived terms

    * picket line * picketing * unpicketed ----