picketee

English

Etymology 1

From picket +‎ -ee.

Noun

picketee (plural picketees)

1. One who is being picketed.
   • 1941, Labor Relations Reference Manual - Volume 7, page 707:

     The picketee is given no choice , and neither is anyone who wishes to visit the picketee's premises or who has business there to attend to, or who would like to go there to work or deliver materials.

   • 1983, Leonard Kerpelman, Divorce, a Guide for Men, page 57:

     Then, the date is scheduled, the press is notified (both the electronic and paper press), signs are prepared, scheduling and logistics are arranged, the press is notified again on the day of picketing, everybody shows up, and a good time is ordinarily had by all, except, usually, the picketee, who can become variously infuriated or outraged.

   • 2003, Henry Julian Abraham, Barbara Ann Perry, Freedom and the Court, page 191:

     There is no doubt that picketing, for example, is a vital prerogative of the freedom of expression; however, mass picketing; picketing that applies physical force to those who might wish to exercise their equal rights of freedom of expression by disregarding the picket line; certain kinds of picketing violative of a picketee's property rights or picketing utterly unrelated to a picketee's "operations"; or picketing in derogation of secondary boycott statutes is not.

Etymology 2

See picotee.

Noun

picketee (plural picketees)

1. Obsolete form of picotee.
   • 1718, Richard Bradley, “Part II. Chapter V: Of Middle-ſiz’d Per-annual Flowers. Sect IX. Of the Carnation or July-Flower […] ”, in New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, Both Philoſophical and Practical […] , 2nd edition, London: W. Mears, page 82:

     The Gardeners divide it into Five Claſſes, which they diſtinguiſh by the Name of Picketees, Painted Ladies, Beazarts, Flakes, and Flames: The Flowers of the Picketees are always of a white Ground, ſpotted or pounced (as they call it) with Red or Purple […]

   • 1812, Peter Forbes, “On going to see a nobleman’s gardener in the neighbourhood”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Edinburgh: R. Menzies, page 89:

     Sic flow’rs o’ sorts ane seldom sees, / Flecks, flames, bussards an’ picketees, / Wi’ strong carnations, like young trees, / To face the entry; […]

   • 1837, William Moody, “Rex v. Moses Fraser”, in Crown Cases Reserved for Consideration; and Decided by the Judges of England. From the Year 1824, to the Year 1837, volume 1, London: Saunders and Benning, page 421:

     It appeared that the prisoner was cutting or plucking some picketees and carnations in Mr. Iner’s garden; some were cut and some were broken.

Further reading

• “picketee”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.