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picket line

noun

  1. a line of strikers or other demonstrators serving as pickets.



picket line

noun

  1. a line of people acting as pickets

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of picket line1

First recorded in 1855–60
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But all train service had been interrupted by the strike, and skilled rail operators did not want to cross the picket lines.

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She said: "The OnlyFans thing happened two days before teachers were on a picket line at the school gate."

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Before she opens the velvet box, a friend blithely mentions that the closest she’s gotten to Krystle’s future husband was when his limo drove through a picket line.

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Police recently scaled down their presence on picket lines, where they had been helping to ensure bin trucks could get out of the depots, to prevent waste piling up on city streets.

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Asked whether RCN members were willing to return to the picket lines, Ms Hughes said it would be "very difficult" currently.

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