I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cross...picket line
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Very few workers were willing to cross the picket line .
flying picket
picket fence
picket line
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So far, there has been very little violence on the picket line.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
mass
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However, on 18 June, a secretly organised mass picket caught the police momentarily off guard.
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There was also a mass picket by supporters outside the Home Office.
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Events at this picket were to shape the character of the next major mass picket of Hadfields on 12 March.
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In Nottinghamshire and adjacent Warwickshire and Leicestershire, pits continued to operate, despite physical intimidation by mass pickets .
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There will be no mass or flying pickets .
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Further violent demonstrations by mass pickets led to £525,000 additional fines being imposed.
white
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Not to mention an artificial grass lawn on the hood and a white picket fence on the front bumper.
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The cemetery was surrounded by a white picket fence, maybe seventy yards square.
■ NOUN
fence
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Who now remembers the second Clairol blowing from the picket fence ?
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I learned how to untie the rope and would push my brother over this picket fence .
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Rickety grey picket fence , low gate ajar.
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I mean there will be no wedding no babies no picket fences .
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There was a picket fence , and a small gate.
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The paint is bright, the picket fence in the front is in good shape.
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In a flash, Creed was out of the jeep and creeping past foliage and tree-trunks towards the beginning of the picket fence .
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Berry lives in a white frame home with a brown picket fence on the edge of Newville.
line
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Things are quiet on the picket line on this Sunday afternoon.
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On the picket lines themselves, the police made uncompromising use of the discretion available to them under public-order law.
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Only during the night... the picket lines being close together, the firing of the skirmishers caused frequent alarms.
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The latter was happy to be walking the fairways of Sandwich instead of battling with strikers on the picket lines .
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To this extent, at least, the picket line interfered with the enemy plans.
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Children were knocked to the ground, screaming and crying as the guards broke through the picket line .
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Nobody was going to keep him from crossing the picket line .
lines
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Police tactics deployed during the strike included roadblocks designed to prevent miners from reaching picket lines .
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Only during the night... the picket lines being close together, the firing of the skirmishers caused frequent alarms.
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The latter was happy to be walking the fairways of Sandwich instead of battling with strikers on the picket lines .
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They drive Ford Tauruses to the picket lines , as if they were normal middle-class people.
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On the picket lines themselves, the police made uncompromising use of the discretion available to them under public-order law.
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Fifteen hundred manual workers will have to decide whether to cross picket lines tomorrow morning.
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Some petrol tanker drivers have refused to cross picket lines .
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The best people, indeed the future Management of the Banks, were on the picket lines .
■ VERB
cross
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Fifteen hundred manual workers will have to decide whether to cross picket lines tomorrow morning.
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Some petrol tanker drivers have refused to cross picket lines.
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Nobody was going to keep him from crossing the picket line.
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Differences of value-orientation may be manifested in contrasting levels of commitment and readiness to cross picket lines.
walk
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Old men, for the first time, walking a picket .
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Though they were walking the pickets he did not know them.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Pro-choice supporters donate money to the clinic for each picket who shows up.
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Protesters staged a noisy picket in front of the hotel where the governor spoke.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Frank laid out the picket signs on the sidewalk, but nobody wanted to pick them up.
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Her abrupt removal from the campus sparked student sit-ins and early morning pickets in front of the school.
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I learned how to untie the rope and would push my brother over this picket fence.
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On the picket lines themselves, the police made uncompromising use of the discretion available to them under public-order law.
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She was down at the scene of the picket .
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Things are quiet on the picket line on this Sunday afternoon.
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When he tapped the top of the picket , it creaked sideways and the chain popped loose.
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Who now remembers the second Clairol blowing from the picket fence?
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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More than 1,200 teachers picketed that day.
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Union members have picketed the department store since it opened.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Black demonstrators picketed the court throughout the trial, alleging that the prosecution of the youths was tantamount to a judicial lynching.
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Even so, the unions' power to strike and picket remained substantial.
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His own firm had been picketed for the last five months in a dispute over the use of new technology.
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In a phone message to a friend, Siegel also threatened to picket the home of a prominent gay philanthropist.
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Publishers were afraid of feminists picketing the bookstores.
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So are all the guys planning to picket the museum today.
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The opening of the penal unit inspired protests and picketing by neighbors in the surrounding neighborhood.