picket line
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɪkɪt laɪn/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpɪkɪt ˌlaɪn/
- Hyphenation: pick‧et line
Noun[edit]
picket line (plural picket lines)
- (rare) A line or rope held by one or many pickets, chiefly one used for tethering horses.
- (military, rare) A barrier or fortification formed by pickets; a stockade.
- (military) A boundary guarded by a picket (unit of soldiers).
- A boundary created by workers participating in a strike, generally at the workplace entrance, which other workers are asked not to pass.
- 2022 August 10, “Network News: RMT's Lynch raises the prospect of a General Strike”, in RAIL, number 963, page 7, photo caption:
- 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.
Translations[edit]
line or rope held by pickets
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barrier or fortification formed by pickets — see stockade
boundary guarded by a unit of soldiers
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boundary created by workers participating in a strike
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References[edit]
- ^ “picket line, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2006; “picket line, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading[edit]
- picket line on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- picketing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia