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Definition of lock out phrasal verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

 

lock out

 phrasal verb
phrasal verb
 
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Phrasal Verbs

lock somebody/yourself out (of something)

 
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to prevent someone from entering a place by locking the door I'd locked myself out of the house and had to break a window to get in.

lock somebody out

 
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(of an employer) to refuse to allow workers into their place of work until they agree to particular conditions related noun lockout
See lock out in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary