lock-innoun [ C ]
uk/ˈlɒk.ɪn/us/ˈlɑːk.ɪn/lock-in noun [ C ] (FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENT)
a length of time during which you are not allowed to end or change a financial arrangement:
Your new mortgage may have a long lock-in period, particularly if you go for a fixed rate.
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Plans and arrangements
- appointed
- arrangement
- blueprint
- bottom-up
- campaign
- card
- formulate
- game plan
- have a card up your sleeve idiom
- intention
- itinerary
- lock
- planning
- policy-making
- preparation
- programme
- project
- road map
- specification
- strategy
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lock-in noun [ C ] (PUB)
UK informal an occasion when a pub locks its doors and allows people to continue drinking illegally after the time when it should have closed:
There was a lock-in at my local last night.
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Selling & serving alcoholic drinks
- bar
- barkeeper
- barmaid
- barman
- bartender
- cut sb off
- free house
- gastropub
- hostelry
- innkeeper
- landlady
- licensee
- liquor store
- nineteenth
- public house
- publican
- roadhouse
- saloon
- saloon bar
- say when idiom
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