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lockdown

About 0.06 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The confinement of people in their own rooms (e.g., in a school) or cells (in a prison), or to their own homes or areas (e.g., in the case of a city- or nation-wide issue) as a security measure after or amid a disturbance or as a non-pharmaceutical intervention in a pandemic.
  2. noun A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting.

Similar words

confinement lockup confined containment blockade shut confining embargo shelter unlocking

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Word family

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