lock out

as inocclude
as inshut off/shut out
as inshut out
as indischarge
as indismiss
as inexclude

Synonyms for lock out

verb block, prevent

Antonyms for lock out

Word Origin & History

"means of fastening," Old English loc "bolt, fastening; barrier, enclosure," from Proto-Germanic *lukan (cf. Old Norse lok "fastening, lock," Gothic usluks "opening," Old High German loh "dungeon," German Loch "opening, hole," Dutch luik "shutter, trapdoor"). "The great diversity of meaning in the Teut. words seems to indicate two or more independent but formally identical substantival formations from the root."

The Old English sense "barrier, enclosure" led to the specific meaning "barrier on a river" (c.1300), and the more specific sense "gate and sluice system on a water channel used as a means of raising and lowering boats" (1570s). Wrestling sense is from c.1600. Phrase under lock and key attested from early 14c.

Example Sentences forlock out

No ordinary person can shut his door to lock out the rest of the world.

Of my methods you may not learn much, for to those beyond the pale we lock out secrets.

It required something heavier than that iron door, to lock out the sympathies of two hearts that had grown old in affection.

Words were wasted breath; the time to strike or to lock out your employees was when you were ready and your opponent was not.

The boys heard the door closed and locked, and the sound seemed to lock out another hope for them.

It involves no dispute of the right to strike or lock out, nor of the closed or open shop.

The youth now proposed to use this dagger as a saw to cut the lock out from the wooden door.

lock out

Synonyms for lock out

Antonyms for lock out

dismiss

dismisses

dismissing

exclude

excluded

lock out

Synonyms for lock out

Antonyms for lock out

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