picket duty

collocation in English

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picket
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpɪk.ɪt/us
/ˈpɪk.ɪt/
a worker or group of workers who protest outside a building to prevent other workers from going inside, especially because they have a disagreement with ...
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duty
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈdʒuː.ti/us
/ˈduː.t̬i/
something that you have to do because it is part of your job, or something that you feel is the right thing ...
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(Definition ofpicketanddutyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Thepicketdutycomes round about one day in five, and the sleeping-in once in 21 days.
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It is quite clear that no man onpicketdutycan tell when be oversteps the boundaries of the law.
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It turned out that the man had been picked for mountedpicketduty.
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I have been onpicketdutyon many occasions during this dispute.
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About 9,000 miners per day are on constantpicketduty, but only 48 arrests have been made.
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When performing fire-fighting duties the men receive an allowance and get two days rest at the end of their seven days firepicketduty.
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Lack of airborne early warning compelled the commander of the task force to deploy destroyers on radarpicketduty.
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It seems to me that thepicketdutyairship is an ideal solution for first barrier defence at sea.
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Is he aware that other persons who were onpicketdutyand obeying the regulation distance were similarly threatened with arrest?
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Why do they not, like some of us had to do in the last war, do sentry andpicketdutynight after night?
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Some of the people onpicketdutywere injured by motor vehicles.
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The object was clearly to remove those people from activepicketduty.
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I really know nothing aboutpicketduty.
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She was employed onpicketdutyguarding the monitors, and on tug and dispatch service until the end of the war.
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Means stationed 24 men onpicketduty: 4 men on each of the 6 roads leading into the town.
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There, they completed additional training and performedpicketdutythroughout the district.
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These ships are not particularly suited forpicketduty.
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After the landing, the 21st spent a cold, wet night onpicketduty.
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Upon arrival, the destroyer was assigned to radarpicketduty, from which she performed fighter director duties.
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They also performed radarpicketdutyand fire fighting.
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