Bible Dictionaries
Lockout

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) The closing of a factory or workshop by an employer, usually in order to bring the workmen to satisfactory terms by a suspension of wages.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Lockout'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​l/lockout.html. 1828.