Meaning of Lockout | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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. The action of installing a lock to keep someone out of an area, such as eviction of a tenant by changing the lock.
3. The exclusion of certain people from a place, event, situation, etc.
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4. 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. The situation of being locked out of a building.
6. A situation where the system is not responding to input.
7. 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.
8. The final portion of a weightlifting motion where all applicable limbs or joints are fully extended or "locked out".
9. An exercise meant to increase strength in the lockout portion of a lifting motion.

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Examples

“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.”

“It's another front-row lockout for Mercedes on the starting grid of the Japanese Grand Prix.”

“a locksmith who is willing to deal with emergency lockouts”

“lockout–tagout”

“Tip: For Bigger Triceps, Do Heavy Lockouts”

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