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verb

Definition of lock outnext
as in to walk

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noun

as in sit-down

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Recent Examples of lock out
Verb
By the end of the year, all of Flock's law enforcement customers will also have to turn on a tool that aims to flag abnormal search behavior and lock out people until the searches are reviewed by an administrator. — Anna Schecter, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026 That most likely will not take place until long after the owners lock out the players in December, and when spring training and regular season games become increasingly at risk. — Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Noun
Heading into an offseason filled with uncertainty and a likely lockout due to the expiring collective bargaining agreement, DePodesta has his work cut out for him in addressing the club’s starting pitching needs. — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 6 Oct. 2026 If re-elected, Mrvan is also focused on protecting union jobs, citing his frustration with the nearly six-month lockout at Whiting’s BP Refinery. — Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for lock out
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lock out
  1. walk
  2. sit-down
  3. walk out
  4. slowdown
  5. walkout
  6. job action
  7. sick-out
Verb
  • Everyone must be ready for anything, and as 100 becomes 50, the kitchen slowly empties and the competition intensifies until one cook eventually walks away victorious.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026
  • As one walked the corridors of Armazém da Utopia ahead of polls opening, the feeling was still one of hope.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of walk
Noun
  • Ahead of the sit-down dinner and ceremony, guests such as Storm Reid, Christine Quinn, Jurnee Smollett, and Lukas Gage trickled in from the rainy outdoors over an hour or so, greeted inside with Casamigos cocktails, filet mignon canapés, and more.
    — Jamila Stewart, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The seven new sit-down restaurants are serving an impressive mix of Italian, Eastern European, Brazilian, French and Mexican food.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2023
Definition of sit-down
Verb
  • With clients walking out and a competitor putting the agency’s standing at risk, the siblings scramble to save both their income and what their mother built.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026
  • When Carrasco was walked out of the NYPD stationhouse in handcuffs by cops Thursday afternoon to appear in Bronx Criminal Court, supporters of the victim were waiting.
    — Theodore Parisienne, New York Daily News, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of walk out
Noun
  • That operational slowdown would subsequently reduce gasoline output and drive total domestic energy costs higher.
    — , CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Against this backdrop of growing public concern and calls for a slowdown in frontier AI development, Fortune editor-in-chief Alyson Shontell flew out to San Francisco to speak with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
    — Sam Forsdick, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of slowdown
Noun
  • Two of Belgium’s largest labor unions organized Friday’s daylong national strike, with a separate public-sector walkout planned for Monday.
    — James Cirrone, FOXNews.com, 9 Oct. 2026
  • This action followed an earlier staff walkout, in which employees at three V&A sites (East Storehouse, East Museum, and Young V&A) left their posts in protest of pay and working conditions.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of walkout
Noun
  • The pilots’ job action was in protest of the Belgian government’s reforms to federal pensions.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The job action shut down the entirety of New Jersey Transit’s rail service, from the foothills of the Shawangunk Mountains in New York to Atlantic City — including, most notably, trains into and out of Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan.
    — Dan Barry, New York Times, 18 May 2025
Definition of job action
Noun
  • Last season, Maggie faced nursing union negotiations, culminating in a sick-out.
    — Claire Franken, TVLine, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Maggie’s major Season 10 storyline involved the tense nursing union negotiations at the hospital, which culminated in a sick-out.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2025
Definition of sick-out

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“Lock out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lock%20out. Accessed 14 Oct. 2026.

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