picket

Object

• site: A dozen or more lecturers picketed the site on Wandsworth Road, demanding that the future of the Faculty be protected.

Converse of object

• fly: They formed flying pickets, going from factory to factory bringing more workers out.
• organize: North East Wales Institute of HE - NATFHE organized strong pickets at all five entrances to main campus.
• mount: And in Nov. they mounted a picket on Esso's HQ in London.
• join: Dave Prentis will join pickets at the Judd Street entrance of Camden Town Hall at 11am tomorrow.
• hold: The campaign will hold a picket for both hearings.
• put: We had to put a picket on the Galliford job to get on it.

Adjective modifier

• peaceful: What reasonable, sensible person would object either to a fair rent or to peaceful pickets?
• mass: Mass picket outside Radio Oxford, Banbury Road at 1pm.
• weekly: The weekly anti-war community picket [ leaflet ] is likely to be quickly targeted.
• good: There were good pickets at council workplaces, with most members respecting picket lines.

Modifies a noun

• fence: You are passing houses, trees, picket fences or whatever is in the street.
• fencing: White picket fencing for external use can be used to form garden areas or define a pathway.
• line: He also showed his support by visiting a cold miner's picket line during the 1984 strike to hand out warming whiskey.
• boat: This was relayed to the mainland and they sent out a small picket boat to drop off some supplies.
• duty: Already three enemy destroyers on picket duty have been sunk.
• sign: I was now bearing witness to a group of people standing around with picket signs.

Modifying Another Word

• then: If the picket line takes it in turns as official pickets then this rota should also be recorded.

Noun used with modifier

• mass: Within a week, mass pickets were organized in Sydney & Melbourne docks.
• radar: HMS Corunna 1948 Home Fleet, 4th Destroyer flotilla 1959 taken in hand for conversion to radar picket.