How to pronounce “lock out”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (transitive) To inadvertently prevent (a person, particularly oneself) from entering a place, by leaving it locked.
• (computing) To prevent from accessing a data structure.
• (transitive) (industrial) To prevent (a person, including oneself) from powering up or turning on a machine when doing so would be dangerous (accomplished with objects such as padlocks or zip ties placed through the switch handle, for example)
• [Noun]
• Misspelling of lockout.

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