lockout

noun lockouts · lock-out

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 subterran

   Opposite: strike, walkout, industrial peace, industrial action, labor action, labour action

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. broadly The exclusion of certain people from a place, event, situation, etc. It's another front-row lockout for Mercedes on the starting grid of the Japanese Grand Prix.

   Opposite: lock-in

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.