[ lok-out ]

/ ˈlɒkˌaʊt /

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noun

the temporary closing of a business or the refusal by an employer to allow employees to come to work until they accept the employer’s terms.

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Origin of lockout

First recorded in 1850–55; noun use of verb phrase lock out

Words nearby lockout

locking piece, locking plate, locking pliers, lockjaw, locknut, lockout, lockout box, lockpick, lockport, lockram, lockset

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Words related to lockout

closure, interruption, layoff, blockage, shutdown, cutoff, walkout, gridlock, embargo, omission, rejection, veto, refusal, prohibition, removal, eviction, segregation, separation, discharge, elimination

Example sentences from the Web for lockout

• Matters escalated from there, with threats of a strike and a lockout making headlines throughout the summer.

  Inside the Metropolitan Opera’s Insane Year|Shawn E. Milnes|November 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST

• That figure represents the serious cut that the players took to settle the 2011 lockout, when it was slashed from 57 percent.

  2014 NBA Preview: Skinny LeBron and the Racist Ghost of Donald Sterling|Robert Silverman|October 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST

• Local businesses that rely on the traffic generated by hockey games are feeling the effects of the lockout.

  Cancellation of NHL Games Has Negative Economic Impact|Miranda Green|December 12, 2012|DAILY BEAST

• The lockout may not put a crimp in the day of the typical sports fan.

  Cancellation of NHL Games Has Negative Economic Impact|Miranda Green|December 12, 2012|DAILY BEAST

• And a shocking number of people spend the night in hotels, so [the lockout] is really a big impact for those businesses.

  Cancellation of NHL Games Has Negative Economic Impact|Miranda Green|December 12, 2012|DAILY BEAST

• Lockout, the exclusion of workmen from a factory by the employer to bring them to terms which they decline to accept.

  The Nuttall Encyclopaedia|Edited by Rev. James Wood

• This lockout is the turning point in the history of trade unionism in England.

  Twentieth Century Socialism|Edmond Kelly

• It has been customary to set the lockout over against the strike as being of equal importance, but this is not the truth.

  Socialism As It Is|William English Walling

• No more were they worried by slack times, strike and lockout, and the union label.

  The Iron Heel|Jack London

• To attain their end these associations made liberal use of the lockout, the blacklist, and armed guards and detectives.

  A History of Trade Unionism in the United States|Selig Perlman

Cultural definitions for lockout

lockout

The withholding of work from employees and closing down of a plant by an employer during a labor dispute.

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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