prelockout
adjEtymology From pre- + lockout.
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Before a lockout.
- His size, however, was considered a barrier, particularly when the prelockout N.H.L. seemed dominated by bigger and bigger players.2008 March 24, Lynn Zinser, “A Rangers Rookie’s Stature Grows With Each Shootout Goal”, in New York Times:
- For the time being the BCC had won, but the unions recovered quickly and prelockout conditions concerning wage rates and craft prerogatives again prevailed.2009, Dominic A. Pacyga, Chicago: a biography, page 151: