The placement of a lockout device on an energy-isolating 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.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
lockout (noun) the withholding of employment by an employer and the whole or partial closing of the business establishment in order to gain concessions from or resist demands of employees
Lockout (Wikipedia)
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Lockout or The 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
- Lockout, a period in some hostels during which guests are disallowed from the premises
- "The Lockout" (Broad City), a 2014 television episode
- "The Lockout" (The League), a 2011 television episode
- A form of vote-splitting in a two-round system
Lockout (Wiktionary)
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
- 1926, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Ghost of Gideon Wise” in The Incredulity of Father Brown:
- The first was in the Babylonian halls of the big hotel, which was the meeting place of the three commercial magnates concerned with arranging
nutrient blockage, nutrient lock, nutrient obstruction, nutrient barrier, nutrient exclusion
