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Meanings of lockup in English

Wikidata

A place in which individual persons have restricted personal freedom.

Catalan
tancament
Spanish
cierre

The act of locking something up to protect it.

tancament
Synonyms
Examples for "locking"
Examples for "locking"
1
Braking-force support is another way of saying: not quite self-locking, but almost.
Rock and Ice Magazine
2
Twitter has not made the exact conditions for locking an account public.
The Guardian
3
This extends observations of a single locking region reported in previous studies.
Pubmed
4
A lockdown means locking all the school's windows and doors, he said.
Radio NZ
5
Centre locking hubs help reduce the wheel's rotating masses to improve performance.
BBC

In graphic design, a form of logo with name and image in final position.

Usage of lockup in English
1
Major shareholders like Porsche SE agreed to a lockup of 30 days.
Reuters
2
Athene's shares in Apollo will not be subject to a lockup agreement.
Reuters
3
Other investors who agreed to pay hefty fees have no lockup period.
Reuters
4
Afterward, he does two days in Watson's lockup for ditching his group.
Nemesis
5
Let's get you your things back out of lockup and get moving.
A Day Dark as Night
6
I wouldn't have figured you as someone ready to storm the lockup.
The passage
7
As always, connecting the chain to a U-lock makes your lockup safer.
NY Magazine
8
I'm goin' to march ye both to the town lockup, right away.
The Airplane Boys among the Clouds; Or, Young Aviators in a Wrec...
9
Grady, she was told, had beat the kid in the district lockup.
Homicide: a year on the killing streets
10
The Mazz is the only reason I didn't die in the lockup.
The Fireman
11
Obviously, they don't want any weapons available in the lockup areas.
Mindhunter
12
Tired: Extremely scary cycle of repeated system crashes occurred after a player lockup.
Wired
13
He was assisted into the buggy, and spent that night in the lockup.
Driven from Home; Or, Carl Crawford's Experience
14
For three days and three nights I sat in the lockup.
Mother
15
Had I ordered dinner I might now have been in the village lockup.
The Postmaster's Daughter
16
A lockup on an additional 38 million shares expires next June.
Reuters
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Translations for lockup
Catalan
tancament
Lockup through the time
Lockup across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common