Meaning of LOCKOUT
| Pronunciation: | | 'lâk`awt
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| | Definition: | | [n] a management action resisting employee's demands; employees are barred from entering the workplace until they agree to terms |
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| | Definition: | | \Lock"out`\, n.
The closing of a factory or workshop by an employer, usually
in order to bring the workmen to satisfactory terms by a
suspension of wages.
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| | Related Terms: | | arrest, ban, bar, barring, bell, blockade, boycott, boycottage, check, checkmate, circumscription, cutoff, dead stop, deadlock, debarment, debarring, demarcation, embargo, end, endgame, ending, exception, exclusion, final whistle, full stop, grinding halt, gun, halt, inadmissibility, injunction, job action, narrowing, nonadmission, omission, outlaw strike, preclusion, prohibition, rejection, relegation, repudiation, restriction, revolt, rulebook slowdown, sick-in, sit-down, sit-down strike, slowdown, stalemate, stand, standoff, standstill, stay, stop, stoppage, strike, sympathy strike, taboo, tie-up, turnout, walkout, wildcat strike, work stoppage |
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