lock up
- acquire v.
- affirm v.
- assure v.
- bind v.
- cage v.
- coop v.
- corral v.
- enclose v.
- ensure v.
- forbid v.
- get v.
- have v.
- hide v.
- hold v.
- immobilize v.
- imprison v.
- incarcerate v.
- jail v.
- mew v.
- monopolize v.
- possess v.
- prohibit v.
- put away v.
- restrain v.
- secure v.
- secure v.
- stash v.
- store v.
- tie/tie up v.
- tie up v.
- lockup n.
Example Sentences
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SPVs often focus on a single company, and lock up investors’ money until the company goes public or another liquidity event, such as an acquisition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Last night Ghazalian could not properly lock up Dialog Cafe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
"Without this decisive action, prisons will run out of space entirely as early as November and we will be unable to lock up serious offenders at all," they said.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Why lock up deodorant when a company could use that cash to pay their employees enough to stop living paycheck-to-paycheck?
From Salon ● May 22, 2026
Mama had stayed up until Master came home and Ugwu was in the kitchen, half asleep, waiting to lock up.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
