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Lockout

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foreclosurenoun(law) The proceeding, by a creditor, to regain property or other collateral following a default on mortgage payments.
embargonounA ban on trade with another country.
lockupnoun(slang) A jail cell; a period of incarceration in such a cell; a facility containing such cells.
lockdownnounThe 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.
unlockingnoun(video games) An initially hidden feature that is made available to reward the player for some achievement.
blockadenounThe physical blocking or surrounding of a place, especially a port, in order to prevent commerce and traffic in or out.
stopnounA (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
blockingnounThe act by which something is blocked; an obstruction.
blockagenoun(uncountable, countable) The state or condition of being blocked.
lock-innoun(law) A situation in which members of an industry have agreed to adopt a certain standard and have retooled their production to meet this standard, thus making it very costly to change to a different standard.
lock-outnounAlternative spelling of lockout. [(labour) The opposite of a strike; a labor disruption where management refuses to allow workers into a plant to work even if they are willing.]
lock-downnounAlternative form of lockdown. [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.]
lock-upnounAlternative form of lockup. [(slang) A jail cell; a period of incarceration in such a cell; a facility containing such cells.]
deadlocknounA standstill resulting from the opposition of two evenly matched forces; a stalemate or impasse.
crashingnounThe sound or action of something that crashes.
lockedHaving undergone locking; secured by a lock.
hangnounThe way in which something hangs.
lockingnoun(computing) The use of a lock or a mutex to restrict access to a part of the code to at most one process.
unemploymentnounThe state of having no job; joblessness.
interlocknounA safety device that prevents activation in unsafe conditions.

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