The placement of a lockout device on an #0excludeGlossary device, in accordance with an established procedure, ensuring that the energy-isolating device and the equipment being controlled cannot be operated until the lockout device is removed.
Lockout may refer to:
- Lockout (industry), a type of work stoppage
- Dublin Lockout, a major industrial dispute between approximately 20,000 workers and 300 employers 1913–1914
- Lockout (sports), lockout in sports leagues
- MLB lockout, lockout in MLB
- NBA lockout, lockout in NBA
- NFL lockout, lockout in NFL
- NHL lockout, lockout in NHL
- Lockout (film), a 2012 science fiction action film
- Lock Out (film), a 1973 Spanish film
- Lockout chip, a computer chip in a video game system to prevent use of unauthorized software
- Lock-out device, part of a signaling system used on game shows
- Regional lockout, a barrier to prevent media use outside of a specific region
- Lockout (news filing), a kind of "dateline" appended to a news report
- Lockout–tagout, a procedure to prevent unsafe activation of machinery
- A period in some hostels during which guests are disallowed from the premises
English
Alternative forms
- lock-out
Etymology
Deverbal from lock out.
Noun
lockout (plural lockouts)
- (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.
- Antonyms: strike, walkout, industrial peace, industrial action, labor action, labour action
- The action of installing a lock to keep someone out of an area, such as eviction of a tenant by changing the lock.
- (by extension) The exclusion of certain people from a place, event, situation