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单词 picket line
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picket line

Word forms: plural picket lines
countable noun
A picket line is a group of pickets outside a place of work.
The miners are trying to get factory workers to join them on the picket line.
No one tried to cross the picket lines.

picket line in British English

noun
a line of people acting as pickets

picket line in American English

a line or cordon of people serving as pickets

Examples of 'picket line' in a sentence
picket line

Strike leaders now fear thousands of the medics will cross picket lines as they do not support the action.
The Sun (2016)
And if that doesn't work, they must cross the picket line and proudly vow to put patients first.
The Sun (2016)
Will she now think twice before joining the picket line again?
The Sun (2016)
The driver was politely asked not to cross an official picket line.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Some of our members were crossing picket lines in which other members were marching.
Christianity Today (2000)
One in five crossed picket lines.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
So, do you cross a picket line?
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
They join no picket line.
The Sun (2012)
I don't see myself crossing the picket line.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
They once crossed a picket line outside the union together to hear the South African ambassador speak on apartheid.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)

In other languages
picket line

British English: picket line NOUN
A picket line is a group of people who stand outside a place of work in order to protest about something.
No one tried to cross the picket lines.
  • American English: picket line
  • Brazilian Portuguese: piquete
  • Chinese: > 纠察线由罢工纠察队员组成的
  • European Spanish: piquete
  • French: piquet de grève
  • German: Streikpostenkette
  • Italian: picchetto
  • Japanese: ピケライン
  • Korean: 피켓 농성 대열
  • European Portuguese: piquete
  • Latin American Spanish: piquete
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