picket line

A line or procession of people picketing a place of employment or otherwise staging a public protest.

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picket line

(Industrial Relations & HR Terms) a line of people acting as pickets

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

pick′et line`

a line of strikers or other pickets.

[1855–60]

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Noun

picket line - a line of people acting as pickets

line - a formation of people or things one behind another; "the line stretched clear around the corner"; "you must wait in a long line at the checkout counter"

Translations

picchetto

picket line

n → Streikpostenkette f; to cross a picket line → eine Streikpostenkette durchbrechen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

picket line

n → cordone m degli scioperanti

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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Besides the soldiers who formed the picket line on either side, there were many curious onlookers who, jesting and laughing, stared at their strange foreign enemies.

The soldiers forming the picket line, like showmen exhibiting a curiosity, no longer looked at the French but paid attention to the sight-seers and grew weary waiting to be relieved.

Look there!" one soldier was saying to another, pointing to a Russian musketeer who had gone up to the picket line with an officer and was rapidly and excitedly talking to a French grenadier.

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Men leaped from their blankets and with guns ready ran toward the picket line, and then from the jungle beyond the boma a dozen lions, emboldened by the example of their fellow charged fearlessly upon the camp.

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A NURSE who posted a photo of herself on a picket line with her son in 1999 did it again this week and said nothing has changed.

Nurse& son back on picket line after 20yrs

A TEACHER who refused to cross a picket line during the equal pay strike in Glasgow will today learn if she still has a job.

Teacher: I was threatened for joining strike; Job in jeopardy for showing solidarity

Labour MPs Ian Lavery and Emma Lewell-Buck joined a picket line in Newcastle.

MPs join picket

Labour MPs Ian Lavery andEmma Lewell-Buck joineda picket line in Newcastle.

Labour MPs join the picket line to support rail staff in train guard dispute; Members of the RMT union were supported by MPs on the picket line in Newcastle

In a site visit two weeks later, the Local 229 agent presented CMC employees a "Picket Line Etiquette" flyer.

Free speech, religious freedom claims stall in parking structure labor dispute

A 30-minute commotion broke the 'peaceful' picket line of union members of Del Monte Land Transport Bus (DLTB) Co.

Ruckus at bus firm picket line as management brings 2 tow trucks

"Our staff have to walk across that carpet every day!" The world may change, but still, a trade unionist never crosses a picket line.

Working for the union movement [...]

A small picket line was formed outside the main entrance yesterday morning and will return today.

Staff picket universities in two-day action over pay