picket line
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picket line
n.
A line or procession of people picketing a place of employment or otherwise staging a public protest.
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picket line
n
(Industrial Relations & HR Terms) a line of people acting as pickets
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pick′et line`
n.
a line of strikers or other pickets.
[1855–60]
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Noun | 1. | 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" |
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picket line
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 scioperantiCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995