Definition of lockouts:
(n) :
(labour) The opposite of a strike; a labor disruption where management refuses to allow workers into a plant to work even if they are willing.
(n) :
The action of installing a lock to keep someone out of an area, such as eviction of a tenant by changing the lock.
(n) :
(by extension) The exclusion of certain people from a place, event, situation, etc.
(n) :
The situation of being locked out of a building.
(n) :
The restriction of a population to a certain area, but allowing free movement within that region, in order to prevent the spread of disease. Compare lockdown.
(n) :
(computing) A situation where the system is not responding to input.