Definition of Lockaut

Definition of Lockaut

Lockout, the exclusion of workmen from a factory by the employer to bring them to terms which they decline to accept.

- Wikipedia

Lock"out` (?), 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.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

To prevent from entering a place, particularly oneself, inadvertantly
I've locked myself out of my room again
(computing) To prevent from acessing a data structure
The synchronize keyword locks out all other threads trying to access the object

- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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