How to pronounce “lockout”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (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.
• 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.
• 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.
• (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.
• (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.

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