| 词组 | lock out |
| 释义 | lock out 1. lock sb out • lock out sb to deliberately prevent someone from entering a place, especially their own home, by locking the door: ▪ The court heard that Simms had beaten his wife and locked her out. 2. lock yourself out to leave your keys inside a building, room, car etc by mistake, with the result that you cannot get back inside it after the door has shut: ▪ Oh no! I've locked myself out of my room! ▪ We always leave a spare key with our neighbours now, in case we lock ourselves out. 3. lock sb out • lock out sb if the employers at a place of work lock out the workers, they prevent the workers from coming in until the workers agree to what the employers want: ▪ The banks locked out employees on February 1st for refusing to handle inter-bank payments. lockout n C when employers prevent workers from coming to work until the workers agree to what the employers want: ▪ When the miners went on strike, management responded with a lockout. |
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