Usually means: Restrict movement to control situation.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. lock-down: Wordnik
  2. lock-down, lock down: Wiktionary
  3. Lock-down, lock down: Dictionary.com
  4. Lock Down, Lock-down, Lock down: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. Lock-down: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. lock-down: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Lock-down: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. lock-down: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Lock-down, lock down: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lock down: Legal dictionary
  2. lock down: Financial dictionary

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

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

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

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

Definitions from Wiktionary (lock down)

verb:  (transitive) To secure (something).
verb:  To blockade and lock (e.g. a building or campus) so as to prevent ingress or egress; to make the occupants (of an area) stay locked indoors for their safety.
verb:  (transitive) To limit the use of (a computer network) to only users with permission.
verb:  (transitive) To make (an arrangement) secure, definite, or permanent; to fix.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To cause (another person) to enter into an exclusive romantic relationship.
verb:  (intransitive, boating) To travel through a flight of locks on a waterway in a downhill direction.

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