| Definitions | | lock out |
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noun
- An event in which an employer bars employees from working as a tactic in negotiating terms of employment, particularly in rsponse to a strike or threat to strike.
verb (inf=lock out, locks out, locking out, locked out)
- To prevent from entering a place, particularly oneself, inadvertantly.
- I've locked myself out of my room again
- (computing) To prevent from accessing a data structure.
- The synchronize keyword locks out all other threads trying to access the object
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