Associations to the word «Lockout»

Wiktionary

LOCKOUT, noun. The opposite of a strike; a labor disruption where management refuses to allow workers into a plant to work even if they are willing.
LOCKOUT, noun. The action of installing a lock to keep someone out of an area, such as eviction of a tenant by changing the lock.
LOCKOUT, noun. (computing) A situation where the system is not responding to input.

Dictionary definition

LOCKOUT, noun. A management action resisting employee's demands; employees are barred from entering the workplace until they agree to terms.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats