lockout
nounEtymology Deverbal from lock out.
10 senses
- 1The opposite of a strike; a labor disruption where…
- 2The action of installing a lock to keep someone out of…
- 3The exclusion of certain people from a place, event…
- 4The restriction of a population to a certain area, but…
- 5The situation of being locked out of a building.
- 6A situation where the system is not responding to input.
- 7A safety device designed to prevent touching a moving…
- 8The final portion of a weightlifting motion where all…
- 9An exercise meant to increase strength in the lockout…
- 10A form of vote splitting in a two-round voting system…
The opposite of a strike; a labor disruption where management refuses to allow workers into a plant to work even if they are willing.
- 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.1926, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Ghost of Gideon Wise”, in The Incredulity of Father Brown:
The action of installing a lock to keep someone out of an area, such as eviction of a tenant by changing the lock.
Broadly 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.
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.
The situation of being locked out of a building.
- a locksmith who is willing to deal with emergency lockouts
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A situation where the system is not responding to input.
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.
Industrial operations
- lockout–tagout
Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports, Weightlifting The final portion of a weightlifting motion where all applicable limbs or joints are fully extended or "locked out".
Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports, Weightlifting An exercise meant to increase strength in the lockout portion of a lifting motion.
- Tip: For Bigger Triceps, Do Heavy Lockouts2016, Christian Thibaudeau, “Tip: For Bigger Triceps, Do Heavy Lockouts”, in T-Nation:
Government, Politics A form of vote splitting in a two-round voting system which a large number of candidates with similar politics prevent each other from advancing to the second round, allowing a pair of opposition candidates to face each other in the runoff.
- Derived terms
- postlockout, prelockout, regional lockout