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Lock out
An event in which an employer bars employees from working as a tactic in negotiating terms of employment, particularly in response to a strike or threat to strike.
📖 Definitions of "Lock out"
noun
- 1
An event in which an employer bars employees from working as a tactic in negotiating terms of employment, particularly in response to a strike or threat to strike.
verb
- 1
To inadvertently prevent (a person, particularly oneself) from entering a place, by leaving it locked.
"I've locked myself out of my room again!"
- 2
To prevent from accessing a data structure.
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