Usually means: Denial of access to employees.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word lockout:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. lockout: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lockout: Merriam-Webster
  3. lockout: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lockout: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lockout: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lockout: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lockout, lockout: Wordnik
  8. lockout: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lockout: Wiktionary
  10. lockout: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lockout: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lockout: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. lockout: Dictionary.com
  14. lockout: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Lockout (film), Lockout (industry), Lockout (sports), Lockout: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Lockout: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lockout: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lockout: Rhymezone
  19. Lockout: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lockout: FreeDictionary.org
  21. lockout: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. lockout: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. lockout: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. lockout: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Lockout (industry), lockout: Legal dictionary
  7. Glossary of Labor & Legal Terminology (No longer online)
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lockout: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lockout: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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.
noun:  The action of installing a lock to keep someone out of an area, such as eviction of a tenant by changing the lock.
noun:  (by extension) The exclusion of certain people from a place, event, situation, etc.
noun:  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.
noun:  The situation of being locked out of a building.
noun:  (computing) A situation where the system is not responding to input.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (weightlifting) The final portion of a weightlifting motion where all applicable limbs or joints are fully extended or "locked out".
noun:  (weightlifting) An exercise meant to increase strength in the lockout portion of a lifting motion.

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