lock 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.