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LOCK-OUT

Specialty Definition: LOCK-OUT

DomainDefinition

Computing

In data communications, the action of placing unaddressed terminals on a multipoint line in control state so that they will not receive transmitted data. Source: European Union. (references)

Law

An employer practice of denying the possibility of work to employees in connection with a trade dispute. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Date "LOCK-OUT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1908. (references)


Crosswords: LOCK-OUT

Non-English Usage: "LOCK-OUT" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (shut out), Portuguese (lockout, lock-out).

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Usage: LOCK-OUT

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Lock-Out (1973)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: LOCK-OUT

DomainTitle

Books

  • Greve, lock-out, e uma nova política laboral (reference)

  • Le lock-out et le chômage technique (reference)

  • Les conflits collectifs du travail : grève et lock-out (reference)

  • The great lock-out of 1926 (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: LOCK-OUT

"LOCK-OUT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "LOCK-OUT" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2274,468

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: LOCK-OUT

Language Translations for "LOCK-OUT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

lockout (lockout), spærring (blockade). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

uitsluiting (disqualification, exclusion, expulsion, lockout), uitsluiten (exclude). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

työnsulku. (various references)

   

French

  

lock-out (lockout), verrouillage (locking), grève patronale (lockout). (various references)

   

German

  

Verriegelung (activation, binding, brake, closure, clutching, interlock, interlocking, interlocking device, jamming, latch, lock, lock out, locking, protection, safety lock), Unterbindung (lock out, protection), Sperre (ban, barrier, barring, blackout, blockade, boom, detent, elimination, embargo, fence, gate, interlock, lock, lock out, locking device, lockout, mental block, obstacle, roadblock), Aussperrung (lock out, lockout). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

διακοπή του βρασμού στον πυρήνα (nucleate boiling lock-out). (various references)

   

Italian

  

serrata (lockout), accesso vietato (lock out, protection). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ock-outlay

   

Portuguese

  

lock-out (lockout), bloqueamento (deadlock, hangup, latching, lock out, locking, protection), acesso interdito (lock out, protection). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

локаут (lockout, shutout, shut-out, shutouts). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

exclusión (debarment, estoppel, exclusion, preclusion), cierre patronal (lockout, shutout), bloqueo (block, blockade, blockage, deadlock, freezing, locking, tie up, whitewash). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: LOCK-OUT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lockout.

Words within the letters "c-k-l-o-o-t-u"

-2 letters: cloot, clout.

-3 letters: clot, colt, cook, cool, coot, cult, kolo, koto, lock, loco, look, loot, lout, luck, tolu, took, tool, tuck.

-4 letters: col, coo, cot, cut, loo, lot, oot, out, too.

-5 letters: lo, to, ut.

 Words containing the letters "c-k-l-o-o-t-u"
 

+1 letter: lockouts.

 

+4 letters: outpolitick.

 

+5 letters: leukocytoses, leukocytosis, leukopoietic, outpoliticks.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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