(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The total dose was governed by a special algorithm which made demand doses decline with time in a pseudo-exponential manner; lockout time was 4 min.
(2) An experiment to validate predictions concerning submersible survivability was performed in December, 1975, by members of the Canadian Forces in the CF Submersible Lockout Vehicle SDL-1 in Halifax Harbour in water of 4 degrees C temperature at a depth of 40 ft. Data was collected relevant to the life support equipment to determine if it would operate for a simulated 6-h mission followed by a 24-h immobility period, at the end of which rescue was presumed to have occurred.
(3) Republicans are also under pressure to lift their refusal to pass a separate spending authorisation, which precipiated a partial shutdown of the government, leading to the lockout of an estimated 800,000 federal workers.
(4) The patients in the PCA group received morphine sulfate 2 mg bolus then 1.0 mg with a 6-minute lockout.
(5) He presided over two major lockouts, in 1998 and 2011, the second being a completely avoidable exercise of power on behalf of the owners.
(6) In the early 2000s price and exchange controls had logic in the context of private-sector lockouts, massive capital flight and the need to ensure access to high-price goods and services for the poor – Chávez's core supporters.
(7) Patients in the propofol group self-administered 20 mg (2 ml over 6 s) bolus doses of propofol; successful demands averaged 8.0 (SD 4.4) and unsuccessful demands (during the 1 min lockout period) 2.8 (SD 4.1).
(8) By the time this interview comes out in eight days time, do you think the lockout might well be resolved?
(9) Explaining his decision to come out now, Collins writes: "… I started thinking about this in 2011 during the NBA player lockout … the lockout wreaked havoc on my habits and forced me to confront who I really am and what I really want."
(10) After that, stare through your TV and into the future, and see your local owner salivating at the chance to further gut the collective bargaining agreement with the NFL Players Association – finger-steepling and eager to engineer another lockout or force a strike and hope that dog-whistling about “working for the good of the game” will motivate anti-blinged-out-player resentment lingering in every team fanbase.
(11) In fact it was a textbook lockout and display of corporate power by Britain's largest private company – a strategic and once publicly owned complex supplying 85% of Scotland's petrol, left to be run on the whim of a billionaire.
(12) The Blackhawks began the lockout-shortened season without a loss in their first 24 games and closed the regular season with the Presidents' Trophy for having the best regular-season record, before then claiming the Stanley Cup in Boston's TD Bank Garden.
(13) In a group of 80 healthy women undergoing vaginal ovum pickup procedures, we evaluated patient-controlled administration of alfentanil using a patient-controlled analgesia device (with a lockout interval of 3 min) as an alternative to conventional physician-controlled administration.
(14) Patient-controlled analgesia variables, using an epidural solution of 0.125% bupivacaine plus fentanyl 3 mcg per ml, were a 4 ml incremental bolus with 15 minute lockout, plus or minus a 4 ml per hour infusion.
(15) After the disappointment of a lockout-shortened regular season , the 2013 NHL playoffs were full of great moments, upsets, hits and amazing goals.
(16) Indiana has taken a more conservative approach to Medicaid expansion, with some patients paying more out of pocket and “ lockouts ” on coverage for those who fail to keep up with premiums.
(17) After the end of the NFL lockout in 2011, Reid's long, slow exit from Philadelphia began.
(18) Similarly, a scientific basis for setting the variables of patient-controlled analgesia, drug choice, incremental dose, maximum dose and lockout interval, also has been lacking.
(19) The PCA system was set to deliver bolus of either morphine 1 mg or buprenorphine 0.03 mg, with a lockout interval of 10 and 15 min respectively.
(20) When additional analgesia was requested, all patients received patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) with intravenous morphine (2-mg demand dose, 7-min lockout interval).
Lookout
Definition:
(n.) A careful looking or watching for any object or event.
(n.) The place from which such observation is made.
(n.) A person engaged in watching.
(n.) Object or duty of forethought and care; responsibility.
Example Sentences:
(1) As human papilloma virus type 5 is known to have malignant potential, clinicians should be on the lookout for these banal-looking and distinctly non-warty lesions in renal transplant recipients.
(2) The local sheriff, FBI and other law enforcement officials have so far held back from confronting the militia, who are heavily armed and have lookouts on a watchtower.
(3) If you're on the lookout for gristle on a stick, or deep-fried nearly-meat and soggy chips, it's your lucky night.
(4) 10.01pm BST North Avenue Beach From a 95th floor lookout over Chicago's sprawling downtown … to the beach, in under 10 minutes.
(5) It’s windy but the rain has stopped so we decide to brave Intermediate Hill, where a new lookout has been built with 360-degree views of the island.
(6) Photograph: Guardian The lookout from the summit, taking in the Jaws of Borrowdale and still waters of Derwent Isle, was immortalised in the classic book Swallows and Amazons.
(7) A study conducted in the Sioux Lookout Health Zone in northwestern Ontario, Canada analyzed the diagnoses and managements for 139,618 patient visits to three levels of practitioners: physicians, nurse practitioners, and minimally trained health aides.
(8) Pharmacists should be on the lookout for complaints of any side effects experienced by a patient and should recommend that a patient contact her physician to discuss the untoward reactions.
(9) As "Darien", it was the lookout for Ransome's boat‑loving kids.
(10) Here was the perfect sea story for which Poe had been on the lookout.
(11) Meanwhile, the reigning NL Cy Young Award winner, Clayton Kershaw is closer to returning from his first career stint on the disabled list after throwing five innings during a rehab outing for the Dodgers Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts.
(12) In addition, we are all to get used to wearing life jackets, lookouts are to be posted and we will be told where to assemble if foreign soldiers come aboard.
(13) Cleese is currently on the lookout for a director to helm the stage production, which could still be some way from treading the boards.
(14) The proposed protected areas include 196 sq km (122 sq miles) of deepwater coral reef off Cape Lookout, a 83 sq km (52 square mile) area off Cape Fear and more than 37,000 sq km in an elbow-shaped area extending from South Carolina to southern Florida.
(15) We are simply reacting to steps taken by Russia.” The EU's boxers are on the lookout for fighting talk from Theresa May Read more Earlier in the week EU foreign ministers said Russia could be guilty of possible war crimes in Aleppo and agreed to widen sanctions against Syrians implicated in the bombing.
(16) Most white people were on the lookout, we were told, for what they called these basic racial traits.
(17) In order to demonstrate a relationship between visually related learning disabilities and juvenile deliquency, a study was conducted on institutionalized youth at Lookout Mountain School, an educational facility for committed delinquents.
(18) Keying in a password or code 40-plus times a day might seem like a hassle but, says Lookout's Derek Halliday, "It's your first line of defence."
(19) "[They] were constantly on the lookout for an excuse to launch an operation in Lebanon ," he wrote in his 2000 book, The Iron Wall.
(20) Jack Kerouac spent the summer of 1956 as a fire lookout atop Desolation Peak in the North Cascades, surrounded by silence and rocky spires, far from the drink, drugs and distractions of his San Francisco life.