lockout
(noun) a management action resisting employee’s demands; employees are barred from entering the workplace until they agree to terms
Source: WordNet® 3.1
lockout (plural lockouts)
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 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 others from a certain place or situation.
(computing) A situation where the system is not responding to input.
A safety device designed to prevent touching a moving part when it is under operation.
(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.
• (denial of work): strike; industrial peace
Source: Wiktionary
Lock"out`, n.
Definition: The closing of a factory or workshop by an employer, usually in order to bring the workmen to satisfactory terms by a suspension of wages.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
11 May 2025
(noun) a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc.
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
