lockout
/lˈɑkˌaʊt/
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.13 in modern English
Meaning
noun
The opposite of a strike; a labor disruption where management refuses to allow workers into a plant to work even if they are willing.
noun
The action of installing a lock to keep someone out of an area, such as eviction of a tenant by changing the lock.
noun
The restriction of a population to a certain area, but allowing free movement within that region, in order to prevent the spread of disease. Compare lockdown.
noun
The situation of being locked out of a building.
noun
A situation where the system is not responding to input.
noun
A safety device designed to prevent touching a moving part when it is under operation; a safety device to keep the power supply turned off during repairs; the standardized practice and method whereby such devices are deployed.
noun
The final portion of a weightlifting motion where all applicable limbs or joints are fully extended or "locked out".
Example Sentences
- "The first was in the Babylonian halls of the big hotel, which was the meeting place of the three commercial magnates concerned with arranging for a coal lock-out and denouncing it as a coal strike, the second was in a curious tavern, having the façade of a grocery store, where met the more subterranean triumvirate of those who would have been very glad to turn the lock-out into a strike—and the strike into a revolution."
- "It's another front-row lockout for Mercedes on the starting grid of the Japanese Grand Prix."
- "a locksmith who is willing to deal with emergency lockouts"
- "lockout–tagout"
- "Tip: For Bigger Triceps, Do Heavy Lockouts"