lockout
B2CEFR level
50/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
An employer's exclusion of workers from the workplace during an industrial dispute to force acceptance of terms.
When negotiations collapsed, management responded to the overtime ban with a lockout.
Business noun
An employer's closing of the workplace to pressure workers during a dispute.
When talks collapsed, management imposed a lockout, barring staff from the factory floor.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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