lockout n : a management action resisting employee's demands; employees are barred from entering the workplace until they agree to terms

English

Noun

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

Translations

Lockout may mean:

• A map in the game Halo 2
• Lockout (industry), a work stoppage in which an employer prevents some or all employees from working, even to the extent of closing the business.
• A daytime period in some hostels during which guests are not allowed to be present in the hostel.
• Lockout (telecommunication), a system of preventing unwanted signals
• Lockout law, a law to prevent people entering venues between certain times (usually late at night as a crime prevention strategy)
• Lock and tag, a workplace safety system to prevent activation of machinery while a worker may be inside. A worker places a padlock or other device on the control of a machine to prevent anyone else from operating it and retains the lock's key.

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