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The firm said most of its flight schedules had now returned to normal.

The country's industrial regulator, Fair Work Australia, stepped in to end the dispute, ordering both sides back to work on Monday after emergency talks.

Ms Gillard has said she supports the right of workers to take industrial action, and on Tuesday made it clear that she was still angry with the company.

"Qantas on Friday was talking about continuing to negotiate this dispute. On Saturday it made the decision to strand tens of thousands of passengers around Australia and around the world," she said.

"It needs to take some responsibility publicly for that decision."

The airline gave the government three hours' notice of its decision to lock out its own workers.

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Look at the red colored sentence in the above.

There is no verb called 'strand' in dictionaries.

Strand as a noun means a piece of hair. We say strand of hair, for example.

So you can't write 'to strand' , I think.

What do you think?

We say stranded passengers. That is fine because the word stranded is an adjective.