EGAVE

lockout

About 0.33 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. 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.
  2. noun The action of installing a lock to keep someone out of an area, such as eviction of a tenant by changing the lock.
  3. noun The exclusion of certain people from a place, event, situation, etc.
    It's another front-row lockout for Mercedes on the starting grid of the Japanese Grand Prix.
  4. 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.
  5. noun The situation of being locked out of a building.
    a locksmith who is willing to deal with emergency lockouts
  6. noun A situation where the system is not responding to input.
  7. 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.
    lockout–tagout
  8. noun The final portion of a weightlifting motion where all applicable limbs or joints are fully extended or "locked out".

Similar words

foreclosure embargo lockup lockdown unlocking blockade stop blocking blockage lock-in

Often followed by

of and is in or was policy by to

Word family

lockouts

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