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Definition of Lockout
1. Noun. A management action resisting employee's demands; employees are barred from entering the workplace until they agree to terms.
Definition of Lockout
1. n. The closing of a factory or workshop by an employer, usually in order to bring the workmen to satisfactory terms by a suspension of wages.
Definition of Lockout
1. 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. ¹
2. Noun. The action of installing a lock to keep someone out of an area, such as eviction of a tenant by changing the lock. ¹
3. Noun. (computing) A situation where the system is not responding to input. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lockout
1. a closing of a business to coerce employees to agree to terms [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lockout
Literary usage of Lockout
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Strikes, Lockouts and Labor Organizations by Thomas Sydenham Cogley (1894)
"Definition of lockout. Considering the fact that the word "lockout" is as often
spoken as "strike," and always in connection with one, it seems singular ..."
2. Collective Bargaining in the Lithographic Industry by Henry Elmer Hoagland (1917)
"A lockout was threatened. To prevent this, if possible, the National Civic ...
Pending the settlement of disputes, no strike or lockout was to be declared. ..."
3. History of Labour in the United States by John Rogers Commons, Don Divance Lescohier, Elizabeth Brandeis (1918)
"Strikes during the second half of 1886, 417. The Troy laundry workers' lockout,
418. The knit goods industry lockout, 418. Chicago packing industry lockout, ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Monopolies and Industrial Trusts, as Administered by Charles Fisk Beach (1898)
"Where a lockout will be Held Lawful The right of the ... To all intents and
purposes, the lockout is ..."
5. A Documentary History of American Industrial Society by Eugene Allen Gilmore, American Bureau of Industrial Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington (1910)
"BALTIMORE (a) THE HATTERS' lockout (i) Meeting of Mechanics to Support the Hatters,
from the Baltimore Republican and Commercial Advertiser, July 27, 1833, ..."
6. The U. S. Coal Industry, 1970-1990: Two Decades of ChangeTechnology (1992)
"Some lockout submersibles can be mated to deck decompression chambers. ...
The value of the lockout submersible to the scientist lies in its high ..."
7. Sympathetic Strikes and Sympathetic Lockouts by Fred Smith Hall (1898)
"But a lockout, Mr. Potter insists, is something entirely different from ...
He then describes the sympathetic lockout.1 From this it is plain that the ..."
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