How do you use Lockout in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like resistance or opposition, plus the exact meaning.
Lockout meaning
- The opposite of a strike; a labor disruption where management refuses to allow workers into a plant to work even if they are willing.
- The action of installing a lock to keep someone out of an area, such as eviction of a tenant by changing the lock.
- The exclusion of certain people from a place, event, situation, etc.
Synonyms of Lockout
Using Lockout
- The main meaning on this page is: The opposite of a strike; a labor disruption where management refuses to allow workers into a plant to work even if they are willing. | The action of installing a lock to keep someone out of an area, such as eviction of a tenant by changing the lock. | The exclusion of certain people from a place, event, situation, etc.
- Useful related words include: resistance, opposition.
- In the example corpus, lockout often appears in combinations such as: the lockout, lockout of, lockout laws.
Context around Lockout
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lockout
- In this selection, "lockout" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, row, dublin, mlb, dealing, last and shortened stand out and add context to how "lockout" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a lockout in 2011 and after a lockout that spanned. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lockout" sits close to words such as aficionados, aiadmk and airships, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lockout
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Josh Donaldson struggled in 2022, which Boone attributed to the MLB lockout. (12 words)
A lockout in 2011 also meant no offseason programs following the draft. (12 words)
The front-row lockout was the perfect result for and his Red Bull team. (14 words)
Container terminals across B.C. were locked by employers in what they call a defensive action after workers started strike activity, while the union calls the lockout an overreaction to an overtime ban and a refusal to implement automation technology. (40 words)
John Witeck, founder of the Hawaii Worker Center, said to his knowledge the threat of a lockout has not been used in Hawaii in decades, and he thinks it’s an unfair labor practice that makes the situation worse. (39 words)
CN has since ended its lockout of workers and trains began moving this morning, even as the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference issued a 72-hour strike notice to the company, pushing back against the federal government’s move. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
In 1913, he achieved notable success in the Dublin Lockout, dealing with industrial disputes through strikes and the boycotting of goods.
Josh Donaldson struggled in 2022, which Boone attributed to the MLB lockout.
Sometimes it works, such as their blockbuster trade and extension for Mookie Betts in 2020, or the shock signing of Freddie Freeman after the league’s lockout last spring.
Speaking of hydraulics, its hydraulic suspension is comfortable around town but also has a lockout that essentially turns it into a mountain bike, agile on steep terrain.
The event was cancelled in 2013 due to the lockout, while the game wasn't held in 2014 because of the Olympics.
The first makes it illegal for employers in federally regulated industries to bring in replacement workers to continue operations previously executed by unionized employees during a legal strike or lockout.
They knocked on the door in 1994, and put together a run during the lockout-shortened ‘98-99 postseason.
To put together the whole car and to get a front row lockout is incredible.
Canada’s two main railways halt more shipments ahead of potential lockout as bargaining tensions risetheglobeandmail.
Canadian National Railway Co. said in a statement Thursday it has ended the lockout of workers that began earlier in the day.
CN has since ended its lockout of workers and trains began moving this morning, even as the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference issued a 72-hour strike notice to the company, pushing back against the federal government’s move.
Container terminals across B.C. were locked by employers in what they call a defensive action after workers started strike activity, while the union calls the lockout an overreaction to an overtime ban and a refusal to implement automation technology.
Initially, WestJet had anticipated no strike or lockout based on the union’s commitment to abide by the arbitration directive.
John Witeck, founder of the Hawaii Worker Center, said to his knowledge the threat of a lockout has not been used in Hawaii in decades, and he thinks it’s an unfair labor practice that makes the situation worse.
The federal government is urging both sides in the British Columbia port dispute to return to the table after Saturday’s collapse of mediated talks to end the lockout at container terminals that has entered its second week.
The front-row lockout was the perfect result for and his Red Bull team.
The Maritime Employers Association said in its own statement that it “deplores the negative outcome of the vote” and has no choice but to declare a lockout.
They did just that, as Oscar Piastri took first followed by Lando Norris to lockout the front row for McLaren.
After a lockout that spanned from July to December, a decision was reached to tip the season off on Christmas Day.
A lockout in 2011 also meant no offseason programs following the draft.
Common combinations with lockout
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the lockout 15×
- lockout of 8×
- lockout laws 7×
- lockout that 4×
- or lockout 4×
- of lockout 3×
- lockout for 3×
- into lockout 3×
- regional lockout 3×
- lockout is 2×