(n.) A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The report specifies nothing about Freeman’s time at the secretive compound save for a seeming arrival at 4.10pm, only to note that he arrived in nearby district 11 lockup at 10.32pm.
(2) Inquests are yet to be held into the deaths of Maureen Mandijarra, a 44-year-old Aboriginal woman who died in Broome lockup on 30 November 2012, and Jayden Bennell, a 20-year-old Aboriginal man who died on 7 March 2013.
(3) Hayes needed to pay $854 to the court to avoid a jail sentence; because he had no money except a $730-a-month disability check, he was thrown in Richmond County lockup.
(4) Booking isn’t happening or is happening sporadically and inconsistently, which leads to the whole find-your-client game Craig Futterman, University of Chicago Law School “They’re not given access to phones, and the CPD’s admitted this, until they get to lockup – but there’s no lockup at Homan Square,” he said.
(5) We need to be pro-life for the 16-year-old drug addict on the floor of the county lockup,” he said.
(6) But he got into trouble again in both Alice and Darwin, and spent a few months in Darwin’s adult lockup.
(7) As my Canberra colleagues decamp to the budget lockup room you're with me for the next few hours as we await what will no doubt be a heated and revealing question time.
(8) Project staff from the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives (NCIA) gathered information from all jails (county and city) and police department lockups throughout the country regarding the incidence of jail suicides during 1985 and 1986.
(9) Dhu was taken into custody at the police lockup in South Hedland three days before her death after failing to pay a $1,000 fine.
(10) We need to be pro-life for the 16-year-old drug addict on the floor of the county lockup Chris Christie, New Jersey governor For Christie, who has placed his emphasis on New Hampshire while facing an uphill battle for the Republican nomination, heroin has been a key tenet of his campaign and was the subject of his first two television ads.
(11) The issue recently gained wider attention after the death of a 22-year-old Indigenous woman at a Port Hedland lockup .
(12) As I’m still down in the budget lockup, the opening couple of posts tonight are just going to help us set the scene without breaching any state secrets.
(13) During lockup other subsystems may be examined but action on them is delayed.
(14) Ms Dhu, whose first name is withheld for cultural reasons, was arrested for more than $1000 in unpaid fines and placed in the lockup of the South Hedland police station, 1640km north of Perth, to “cut out” her fines.
(15) Early investors in Chinese online giant Alibaba are set to sell $8bn worth of shares Friday morning, escaping the “lockup” that usually requires them to hold their shares for several months.
(16) The figures do not include people who died in police custody, like 22-year-old Yamatji woman Ms Dhu , whose name is not used at her the request of her family, who died in the South Hedland lockup in August 2014.
(17) Evidence for 'cognitive lockup' and for a preference for serial fault management were found.
(18) He twice escaped prison: first in in 2001, when he was wheeled in a laundry cart out the front door of a Guadalajara lockup, and again in 2015 as he slipped through a shaft connecting the shower in his cell with a mile-long tunnel built during his detention by associates.
(19) The issue attracted national attention when a 22-year-old Yamatji woman, Ms Dhu, died in Port Hedland police lockup after spending three days in custody to “pay down” overdue fines.
(20) This would address concerns that the end of a six-month lockup on share sales by major institutional investors timed for this Friday – and scheduled to free up an estimated 1.2 trillion yuan worth of shares for sale next Monday – would result in a massive institutional evacuation from stocks.
Padlock
Definition:
(n.) A portable lock with a bow which is usually jointed or pivoted at one end so that it can be opened, the other end being fastened by the bolt, -- used for fastening by passing the bow through a staple over a hasp or through the links of a chain, etc.
(n.) Fig.: A curb; a restraint.
(v. t.) To fasten with, or as with, a padlock; to stop; to shut; to confine as by a padlock.
Example Sentences:
(1) Only shop online on secure sites Before entering your card details, always ensure that the locked padlock or unbroken key symbol is showing in your browser, cautions industry advisory body Financial Fraud Action UK.
(2) Protected by a rusty padlocked gate, Macrinus's tomb was targeted by thieves after it was first excavated in 2008.
(3) In effect, the large number is a digital padlock which you make available to anyone so they can secure a message.
(4) In the middle of the afternoon its few occupants – a noodle joint, a coffee shop, a Japanese restaurant advertising “suisi”– are padlocked.
(5) He's a member of a party whose best hope for its legacy is that the padlock on the trap door holding that legacy in the basement doesn't come loose.
(6) The 45 degrees interconversion angle between the lip and padlock views support this arrangement.
(7) Really, his fridge in the Treasury kitchen is replete with a padlock.
(8) Police told activists on Wednesday they were investigating the theft of a padlock, which Occupy disputes.
(9) My phone battery was dying so I went to my suitcase, and that’s when I realised the padlock was missing.
(10) I saw sick and defeated men crammed behind fences and being denied their basic human rights, padlocked inside small areas in rooms often with no windows and being mistreated by those who were employed to care for their safety.” Morrison’s office has not returned calls seeking his response to the report.
(11) Scotland Yard's inquiry also found no evidence of Williams's fingerprints on the padlock of the bag or the rim of the bath, which the coroner last year said supported her assertion of "third-party involvement" in the death.
(12) Pretending that the job can be finished by spending cuts alone is as bad as pretending that the problem doesn’t exist at all.” The treasury chief secretary also mocked Osborne for being so tight-fisted that he keeps his milk in a padlocked fridge in the treasury.
(13) We’ve got to look for the padlock in our browser when we shop online.
(14) But until last week, when I was on the way to hear the celebrated American economist Paul Krugman and others debate the wisdom of current austerity policies, I had not realised that the ban on potentially offensive weapons also applies to small padlocks of the sort one uses to safeguard one's clothes in the lockers of changing rooms.
(15) Past the handgun factory that has become an arts centre, behind the rebuilt station with its shiny statue of the first Basque president, there’s a long blackened tunnel with a padlocked door.
(16) They exhibit a very special shape resembling a "padlock" in which three different areas can be distinguished: (a) a compact zone corresponding to the fibrillar component, (b) the granular component and (c) a fibrillar center of low density.
(17) What is writ very large in India’s Daughter , but camouflaged in other countries where equality is more strongly embedded in law, is the low value placed on females and the determination of some men, educated as well as the impoverished, to keep women padlocked to the past.
(18) 2) Before purchasing anything, momentarily view that website as a Where's Wally – ie re-read the micro print, check that the web page has a small padlock in the bottom corner (this means it is secure) and ensure that the web address starts with https.
(19) Thondhlana was at the country's last independent daily, the Daily News, in 2003 when armed police stormed the office, ordered journalists out and padlocked the door.
(20) Talking about working with George Osborne at the Treasury, Alexander said : “We do share things – but not the milk, which to my amusement he still keeps under lock and key … Really, his fridge in the Treasury kitchen is replete with a padlock.