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ˈlock-out
Also lockout. Pl. lock-outs (erron. locks-out).
[f. vbl. phr. lock out: see lock v. 5.]
1. An act of ‘locking out’ a body of workers; i.e. a refusal on the part of an employer, or a number of employers acting in concert, to furnish work to their operatives until certain conditions have been assented to by the latter collectively.
1854Westm. Rev. V. 120 How far the ‘lock-out’ has been forced upon the masters by partial ‘strikes’ of the men,..what proportion of the workpeople have been victims rather than combatants ‘locked-out’,..these are some among many much disputed points. 1860All Year Round No. 57. 161 Lock-outs competing against operatives' intimidation. 1863W. G. Blaikie Better Days for Working People iv. (1864) 91 Strikes on the one side have their counterpart in locks-out on the other. 1889[see close-down]. 1926Times 5 May 2/1 Lord Gainford, speaking for the mine owners, said the notices which were put up were not lockout notices. 1955Times 17 Aug. 7/2 The employers announced that the strike would be met by a lockout, and there seems to be no prospect that they will change their attitude. 1970T. Lupton Managem. & Social Sci. (ed. 2) iii. 62 The hidden sanction of strike or lockout always underlies bargaining. 1971Daily Tel. 20 Oct. 16 It is somewhat exceptional in industrial relations for employers to resort to a lock-out in reprisal against strikes and overtime bans. 1974Socialist Worker 9 Nov. 16/1 Truck workers at British Leyland's AEC plant marched through Southall last Thursday chanting and determined after the month-long lock-out.
2. Electronics and Computers. The automatic temporary prevention of the operation or use of a relay or other device. Usu. attrib.
1924T. Croft Electr. Machinery & Control Diagrams vii. 213 When current passes through the contactor, both the closing and the lockout portions of the switch are magnetized. 1945‘Electr. Engineer’ Ref. Bk. vii. 105 When the directional relay closes contacts for fault current fed out of the feeder, the secondary coil operates the associated attracted armature relay which initiates a lock⁓out operation. The overcurrent relay cannot operate because the secondary coil is not connected to the series coil. 1952I. Frazee et al. Automotive Electr. Syst. vii. 369 Vibrating and lockout circuit breakers consist of a coil winding and a set of contact points... When current in excess of the rated value flows..a plunger..opens the contact points. 1960McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. XIII. 348/2 The problem in all applications of lockout circuits is that of concurrently competing circuits, among which one has to be picked for some action. 1961N. Chapin Programming Computers for Business Applic. viii. 198 The high-speed transfer-of-data phase during which the buffer empties into or fills from high-speed storage..is sometimes called the lockout phase. 1972Computer Jrnl. XV. 194/2 The information in the record is then read, any necessary checking done, and the update performed. The updated version of the record is then inserted in the file and finally the lockout is cancelled. |