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Picket line

//ˈpɪkɪt laɪn// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A line or rope held by one or many pickets, chiefly one used for tethering horses. rare
  2. 2
    a line of people acting as pickets wordnet
  3. 3
    A barrier or fortification formed by pickets; a stockade. rare
  4. 4
    A boundary guarded by a picket (unit of soldiers).
  5. 5
    A boundary created by workers participating in a strike, generally at the workplace entrance, which other workers are asked not to pass.

    "RMT union members form a picket line outside Birmingham New Street on July 27, as part of a national dispute over jobs, pay and conditions."

Etymology

From picket (“stake driven into the ground; soldier or small unit of soldiers assigned to perform a duty; protester positioned outside a workplace, etc., during a strike; the protest itself”) + line.

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