lockout
Definitions
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.
The first was in the Babylonian halls of the big hotel, which was the meeting place of the three commercial magnates concerned with arranging for a coal lock-out and denouncing it as a coal strike, the second was in a curious tavern, having the façade of a grocery store, where met the more subterranean triumvirate of those who would have been very glad to turn the lock-out into a strike—and the strike into a revolution.
The action of installing a lock to keep someone out of an area, such as eviction of a tenant by changing the lock.
The exclusion of certain people from a place, event, situation, etc.
It's another front-row lockout for Mercedes on the starting grid of the Japanese Grand Prix.
The restriction of a population to a certain area, but allowing free movement within that region, in order to prevent the spread of disease. Compare lockdown.
The situation of being locked out of a building.
a locksmith who is willing to deal with emergency lockouts