picket line

noun

1. a line of strikers or other demonstrators serving as pickets.

picket line

noun

1. a line of people acting as pickets

Word History and Origins

Origin of picket line¹

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

Monday's bin collections have been called off as agency workers joined refuse strikers on picket lines in Birmingham amid a separate dispute.

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Unite claimed a growing number of agency staff were refusing to cross the picket lines of striking bin workers due to "unsustainable workloads" and a bullying workplace culture at the council's refuse department.

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And he warned his members would only leave the picket line if there was a major emergency – such as a mass casualty event.

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The number of workers who remain out on the picket line has dwindled to 28 from the 120 who walked out at the beginning of the strike.

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More than three years ago, a group of employees from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette went on strike — and they have been walking the picket line ever since.

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Related Words

• parade 
• protest 
• sit-in 
• strike 
• walkout