Definition of Lock out
1. Verb. Prevent employees from working during a strike.
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Literary usage of Lock out
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1. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1902)
"Several kinds of lock-out systems have been devised with the idea FIG. ...
Before considering the circuits, the construction of the lock-out box, ..."
2. The Relation of Labor to the Law of Today: By Dr. Lujo Brentano by Lujo Brentano (1891)
"The Lock-Out.—The lock-out is more frequently to be sustained than this kind ...
Success of the Lock-Out.—There is a peculiarity connected with the union of ..."
3. The Contemporary Review (1870)
"If it be replied that the husbands and the fathers who provoked the lock-out,
must bear the responsibility of its results to their wives and their children, ..."
4. Elements of Statistics by Arthur Lyon Bowley (1901)
"Cause or object of strike or lock-out - 3. Whether strike was ordered or approved by
... (2) Number employed in factories or works where strike or lock-out ..."
5. Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1876)
"... it became matter of fact, belongs to a later chapter of our history. CHAPTER III.
Honduras Loan Committee—Strike and Lock-out in South Wales ..."
6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1886)
"End of the lock-out in the iron-works of the Pitts- burg district. The cholera
spreads in Spain. Death of Prince Frederick Charles ot Prussia, ..."
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