Lockout

Quick meaning: Lockout is a noun meaning The action of installing a lock to keep someone out of an area, such as eviction of a tenant by changing the lock.

Meaning

The action of installing a lock to keep someone out of an area, such as eviction of a tenant by changing the lock.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) The exclusion of certain people from a place, event, situation, etc.
2. The situation of being locked out of a building.
3. (computing) A situation where the system is not responding to input.
4. (weightlifting) The final portion of a weightlifting motion where all applicable limbs or joints are fully extended or "locked out".
5. (labour) The opposite of a strike; a labor disruption where management refuses to allow workers into a plant to work even if they are willing.
6. 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.
7. (industrial operations) 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.

Example Sentences

lockout–tagout

Tip: For Bigger Triceps, Do Heavy Lockouts

a locksmith who is willing to deal with emergency lockouts

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

Word Forms

• lockouts
• lock-out

Antonyms for lockout

Common opposites include strike, walkout, lock-in.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include foreclosure, embargo, lockup, lockdown, unlocking, blockade.

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