Usually means: Prevent access using security measures.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word lock out:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. lock out: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lock out: Merriam-Webster
  3. lock out: Collins English Dictionary
  4. lock out: Vocabulary.com
  5. Lock-Out, Lock-out, lock-out: Wordnik
  6. lock-out, lock out: Wiktionary
  7. lock out: Dictionary.com
  8. Lock Out (film), Lock-out: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. lock out: Rhymezone
  10. lock out: FreeDictionary.org
  11. lock out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. lock out: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Lock-out: bizterms.net
  3. Lock-out: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  4. lock out: Legal dictionary
  5. Lock-out, lock out: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lock out: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lock out: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lock out: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lock Out: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See lock_outs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (lock out)

verb:  (transitive) To inadvertently prevent (a person, particularly oneself) from entering a place, by leaving it locked.
verb:  (computing) To prevent from accessing a data structure.
verb:  (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. [(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.]

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