Meaning of lock down | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To secure (something).
   transitive
2. To blockade and lock (e.g. a building or campus) so as to prevent ingress or egress; to make the occupants (of an area) stay locked indoors for their safety.
   transitive
3. To limit the use of (a computer network) to only users with permission.
   transitive
4. To make (an arrangement) secure, definite, or permanent; to fix.
   transitive
5. To cause (another person) to enter into an exclusive romantic relationship.
   slang, transitive
6. To travel through a flight of locks on a waterway in a downhill direction.
   intransitive

Examples

“But even as the fireball races both skywards and downwards, the mortally-wounded Major Francis Harvey, Royal Marines, crawls over to a voicepipe despite the loss of both legs and orders the magazines locked down and flooded. It's his last act on this Earth; his body will be found later, next to the voicepipe.”

“Police have the area locked down until the situation is all-clear.”

“It took me some time, but I finally locked her down.”

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