lockup

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The principal shareholders weren’t able to sell shares in the IPO under standard lockup restrictions.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

As an insider, you would be subject to a lockup period of, typically, six months, during which you, other insiders and employees cannot sell shares.

From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026

In the days after the deadly explosion, detectives and bomb technicians, using search warrants, combed a yacht and a storage lockup in Marina del Rey.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

The firm sold a small amount of stock at the IPO but hasn’t unloaded a share since then despite an expiration of lockup restrictions, Barron’s calculates.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

Henry Foster had had his machine wheeled out of its lockup and, when Lenina arrived, was already seated in the cockpit, waiting.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley