picket linenoun [ C ]
uk/ˈpɪk.ɪt ˌlaɪn/us/ˈpɪk.ɪt ˌlaɪn/a group of workers acting as pickets:
Journalists interviewed the union officials on the picket line.
The van drivers refused to cross the picket line (= to go past the pickets).
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Industrial action
- abstain
- blackleg
- cooling-off period
- demarcation dispute
- direct action
- job action
- lightning strike
- lock
- lock sb out
- lockout
- pay claim
- picket
- strike
- strike pay
- strikebreaker
- sympathy
- walk
- walk out
- walkout
- wildcat strike
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