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to lockout
noun
The opposite of a strike; a labor disruption where management refuses to allow workers into a plant to work even if they are willing.
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On Friday night, the league advised teams to lockout the players.
There are multiple theories explaining Rivers's slump, from a secret injury to lockout rust; "small sample size" was rejected for making too much sense.
What a boon environment for a "non-profit" cartel flush with billions that socializes the debts for new stadiums by plundering municipalities and then privatizing the profits, that threatens to lockout the laborers who give the sport its only reason for existence when they ask for a fraction more money to continue at jobs that give them potentially terminal brain damage.
FairSearch's complaint is that "Google uses deceptive conduct to lockout competition in mobile" — by, specifically, requiring OEMs that use Android to pre-load a suite of Google services and give them "prominent default placement" on the device in order to also get access to "must-have Google apps such as Maps, YouTube or Play".
The owners were expected to lockout the players upon termination of the agreement.
According to Dylan Firth, the Wellington regional manager of Hospitality New Zealand, police have been opposing 4am licence renewals unless the bar in question agrees to lockout conditions.
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Players, referees and team executives say the spike in power plays is party attributable to lockout-induced rust, and there has been increased concern in the league about concussions, raising the scrutiny on infractions like boarding and elbowing.
Gary Chaison, a professor of industrial relations at Clark University, as employers turn to lockouts to press their unionized workers to grant concessions after contract negotiations deadlock.
From the Cooper Tire factory in Findlay, Ohio, to a country club in Southern California and sugar beet processing plants in North Dakota, employers are turning to lockouts to press their unionized workers to grant concessions after contract negotiations deadlock.
They are all certified and licensed, and in addition to lockouts, they will also soon offer lock installations and car key duplications.
Former Premier Baird called the opposition to lockouts a "growing hysteria," writing on Facebook that the post-lockout city is "more vibrant than ever".
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