lock out

Definition of Lock Out in English :

1. lock out

prevent employees from working during a strike

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Lock Out

verb (tr, adverb)

1.

to prevent from entering by locking a door

2.

to prevent (employees) from working during an industrial dispute, as by closing a factory

noun lockout

3.

the closing of a place of employment by an employer, in order to bring pressure on employees to agree to terms

1.

to shut out by or as by locking the door against

2.

to keep (workers) from a place of employment in seeking to force terms upon them

n.

The withholding of work from employees and closing down of a workplace by an employer during a labor dispute. Also called shutout.