Picket line
Picket line noun - A line of people acting as pickets.
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Synonyms for Picket line
Strike and picket line are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Strike" instead a noun phrase "Picket line".
Strike
Strike noun - A work stoppage by a body of workers intended to force an employer to meet their demands.
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Many of the studio staffers were former Disney employees, fresh off the picket line from the 1941 strike at that studio.
Source: Creator / Columbia Cartoons -
The Quisling: Sebastian, a Mexican who first tries to sneak through the picket line to work as a scab, then identifies the female leaders of the strike so the sheriff can arrest them.
Source: Film / Salt of the Earth - Exact Words: Jim Nelson is well aware of the city-wide strike, but ignores it because his union has defined strike breaking as crossing a picket line, and Murray's goons forgot to picket his school The Faceless: Michael's wife Maureen, whose face we never see.
Source: Series / G.B.H.
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Strike and Picket line. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 31, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/picket_line/strike
Picket line & Strike. N.p., 2016. Web. 31 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/picket_line/strike>.
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