picket line
noun
1
: a position held by a line of military pickets
2
: a line of people picketing a business, organization, or institution
Examples of picket line in a Sentence
She joined her coworkers on the picket line.
Recent Examples on the Web
After months on the picket line, workers won an increase in wages and got to keep the clause in their contracts.
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Jenn Brice, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
The union had been willing to consider the $4-an-hour deal before the strike, union boss Harold Daggett said on the picket line outside the Port of New York and New Jersey early Tuesday, soon after the start of the strike.
—Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
The latest to join the picket line as of midnight on Tuesday are 45,0000 dockworkers from Maine to Texas.
—Maria Gracia Santillana Linares, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
On the picket line, workers have described living paycheck to paycheck and working one or two additional jobs to cover recent rent hikes.
—Robert Forrant, The Conversation, 27 Sep. 2024
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Jenn Brice, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
The union had been willing to consider the $4-an-hour deal before the strike, union boss Harold Daggett said on the picket line outside the Port of New York and New Jersey early Tuesday, soon after the start of the strike.
—Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
The latest to join the picket line as of midnight on Tuesday are 45,0000 dockworkers from Maine to Texas.
—Maria Gracia Santillana Linares, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
On the picket line, workers have described living paycheck to paycheck and working one or two additional jobs to cover recent rent hikes.
—Robert Forrant, The Conversation, 27 Sep. 2024
See all Example Sentences for picket line
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“Picket line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/picket%20line. Accessed 14 Oct. 2024.
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