Definition of Lockouts

1. Noun. (plural of lockout) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lockouts

1. lockout [n] - See also: lockout

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lockouts

lockkeeper
lockkeepers
lockless
locklike
lockmaker
lockmakers
lockman
lockmaster
lockmasters
lockmen
locknote
locknotes
locknut
locknuts
lockout
lockouts (current term)
lockpick
lockpicked
lockpicker
lockpickers
lockpicking
lockpicks
lockram
lockrams
lockring
lockrings
locks
locks out
locks up
lockset

Literary usage of Lockouts

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Principles of Labor Legislation by John Rogers Commons (1916)
"lockouts.1 For settling differences and avoiding these far- reaching conflicts there have been devised four main methods: mediation or conciliation, ..."

2. The American Labor Year Book by Dept. of Labor Research, Rand School of Social Science (1918)
"Strikes lockouts Conditions, wages and hours 25 12 ... 1 Hatter of Dispute 1916 /p/5 1916 1915 Recognition of the union 257 66 SI I7 Recognition and wages ..."

3. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor by New York (State). Dept. of Labor (1915)
"... STATISTICS OF STRIKES AND lockouts Comparatively few strikes and lockouts occurred in !New York State during the year ended September 30, 1914. ..."

4. Outline of Practical Sociology: With Special Reference to American Conditions by Carroll Davidson Wright (1901)
"By the lockouts 366,69o employees were thrown out of employment, 77+ per cent being males, and 22+ per cent females. Of the 69167 establishments involved in ..."

5. The Making of America by Robert Marion La Follette, William Matthews Handy, Charles Higgins (1906)
"TWENTY YEARS OF STRIKES AND lockouts. BY FRANK J. SULLIVAN. [Frank J. Sullivan, author; ... The individual cost of these lockouts to the employee was $97, ..."

6. Handbook to the Labor Law of the United States by F[rederic] J[esup] Stimson (1896)
"lockouts—A lockout is the general discharge of his laborers by an employer, ... As lockouts are of rare occurrence, being commonly provoked only by strikes, ..."

7. Economic Effects of the War Upon Women and Children in Great Britain by Irene Osgood Andrews, Margaret A. Hobbs (1918)
"Prohibition of Strikes and lockouts The prohibition of strikes and ... 2 Strikes or lockouts were forbidden unless a dispute had been referred to the Board ..."

8. Bulletin of the Department of Labor by United States Dept. of Labor (1896)
"In the Third Annual Report it was shown that during the period from 1881 to 1886, inclusive, 2214 establishments were involved in lockouts, there being ..."

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