lockout

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
    — 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.
  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. broadly
    — It's another front-row lockout for Mercedes on the starting grid of the Japanese Grand Prix.
  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.
    — a locksmith who is willing to deal with emergency lockouts
  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.
    — lockout–tagout
  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.
    — Tip: For Bigger Triceps, Do Heavy Lockouts
  10. 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.

词形变化

lockouts plural lock-out alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
postlockout prelockout regional lockout

词源

Etymology tree
English lock outdeverb.
English lockout
Deverbal from lock out.
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