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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
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Origin of picket line1

First recorded in 1855–60
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During the all-out strike that began on 11 March, workers on the picket line have walked slowly in front of the bin lorries being driven out.

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Sharon Graham seldom pulls her punches, but apart from giving a few quotes, she has not been on picket lines, and failed to give interviews bashing the council or the government.

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Joe Biden was the first president to join a union picket line and support labor’s side in a number of major disputes.

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Mr Cotton said a lot of the difficulty in clearing the waste in the streets had been caused by staff on picket lines who, he said, were preventing vehicles from getting out of depot.

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It prompted Labour council leader John Cotton to condemn "violence on picket lines".

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