Usually means: Restrictive measures to control movement.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. lockdown: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lockdown: Merriam-Webster
  3. lockdown: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lockdown: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lockdown: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lockdown: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lockdown, lockdown: Wordnik
  8. lockdown: Wiktionary
  9. lockdown: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lockdown: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. lockdown: Dictionary.com
  12. Lockdown (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Lockdown (Haven), Lockdown (House), Lockdown (Lost), Lockdown (Stargate SG-1), Lockdown (TV series), Lockdown (Transformers), Lockdown (disambiguation), Lockdown (poem), Lockdown: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. lockdown: Rhymezone
  14. lockdown: FreeDictionary.org
  15. lockdown: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. lockdown: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. lockdown: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. lockdown: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Lockdown: Investopedia
  5. lockdown: Financial dictionary

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noun:  The confinement of people in their own rooms (e.g., in a school) or cells (in a prison), or to their own homes or areas (e.g., in the case of a city- or nation-wide issue) as a security measure after or amid a disturbance or as a non-pharmaceutical intervention in a pandemic.
noun:  (US) A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting.

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