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lockout

[lok-aut] / ˈlɒkˌaʊt /




NOUN
work stoppage
Synonyms


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Skubal might well sign before the lockout is expected to start in December, but there is nothing agent Scott Boras loves more than pitching a marquee free agent to a new owner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Judge doesn’t have too many more chances, even if he is able to return to his previous form when the impending lockout ends.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

By then, players might be in spring training — or might still be sitting home, awaiting the end of a lockout and a subsequent free-agent signing frenzy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Should competing platforms adopt equivalent commitments, the overnight lockout would widen to 10 pm to 7 am and the daily allowance would fall to 60 minutes per app, capped at two hours in total.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

Once the lockout was engaged, you couldn’t disable it for two months.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

Sami Pajari finished 46sec behind to complete the podium and make Toyota the first manufacturer since Citroen in 2010 to claim back-to-back podium lockouts in the WRC.

From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026

He holds a heavy hammer and has used it to impose three lockouts, taking the drastic step of canceling the 2004-05 season to get a hard salary cap.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2023

The Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations Labor Action Tracker logged 424 work stoppages — which includes 417 strikes and seven lockouts — involving approximately 224,000 workers in 2022.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023

The Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations Labor Action Tracker logged 424 work stoppages - which includes 417 strikes and seven lockouts - involving approximately 224,000 workers in 2022.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 28, 2023

In the month of May alone, unions across the nation battled with employers in 413 strikes and lockouts.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield


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