lockout
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lockout (plural lockouts)
- (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.
- Antonyms: strike, walkout, industrial peace, industrial action, labor action, labour action
- 1926, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Ghost of Gideon Wise”, in The Incredulity of Father Brown:
- 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.
- The action of installing a lock to keep someone out of an area, such as eviction of a tenant by changing the lock.
- (by extension) The exclusion of certain people from a place, event, situation, etc.
- Antonym: lock-in
- It's another front-row lockout for Mercedes on the starting grid of the Japanese Grand Prix.
- 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.
- The situation of being locked out of a building.
- a locksmith who is willing to deal with emergency lockouts
- (computing) A situation where the system is not responding to input.
- (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.
- Coordinate term: tagout
- lockout–tagout
- (weightlifting) The final portion of a weightlifting motion where all applicable limbs or joints are fully extended or "locked out".
- (weightlifting) An exercise meant to increase strength in the lockout portion of a lifting motion.
- 2016, Christian Thibaudeau, “Tip: For Bigger Triceps, Do Heavy Lockouts”, in T-Nation:
- Tip: For Bigger Triceps, Do Heavy Lockouts
- (politics) 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.
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[edit]opposite of a strike
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