"lock out" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: lock outs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} lock out (plural lock outs)
  1. Misspelling of lockout. Tags: alt-of, misspelling Alternative form of: lockout Related terms: lock in Translations (an event in which an employer bars employees from working): Aussperrung [feminine] (German), serrata [feminine] (Italian), lockout [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-lock_out-en-noun-o97s00x7 Categories (other): English links with manual fragments

Verb

Forms: locks out [present, singular, third-person], locking out [participle, present], locked out [participle, past], locked out [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} lock out (third-person singular simple present locks out, present participle locking out, simple past and past participle locked out)
  1. (transitive) To inadvertently prevent (a person, particularly oneself) from entering a place, by leaving it locked. Tags: transitive Derived forms: lock-out [noun], lockout [noun] Translations (inadvertently prevent from entering a place): teljetä (Finnish), aussperren (German), escludere (Italian), chiudersi fuori (Italian), låsa ute (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-lock_out-en-verb-2pkw1~Vv Categories (other): English links with manual fragments Disambiguation of 'inadvertently prevent from entering a place': 52 26 22
  2. (computing) To prevent from accessing a data structure. Categories (topical): Computing Translations (prevent from accessing a data structure): escludere (Italian)
    Sense id: en-lock_out-en-verb-R4Sy2Udf Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'prevent from accessing a data structure': 9 82 10
  3. (transitive) (industrial) To prevent (a person, including oneself) from powering up or turning on a machine when doing so would be dangerous (accomplished with objects such as padlocks or zip ties placed through the switch handle, for example) Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-lock_out-en-verb-WGK01~TO Categories (other): English links with manual fragments

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "inadvertently prevent from entering a place",
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