lockout
The English word “lockout” has 10 meanings listed here.
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.
- The action of installing a lock to keep someone out of an area, such as eviction of a tenant by changing the lock.
- The exclusion of certain people from a place, event, situation, etc.
- 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 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.
- The final portion of a weightlifting motion where all applicable limbs or joints are fully extended or "locked out".
- An exercise meant to increase strength in the lockout portion of a lifting motion.
- 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.
Etymology
Deverbal from lock out.
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