lockdown
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
lockdown
- The confinement of people in their own rooms (e.g. in a school) or cells (in a prison), or to their own homes or areas (e.g. in the case of a city- or nation-wide issue) as a security measure after or amid a disturbance or pandemic, etc.
- (US) A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting.
- 1931, State University of Iowa. Bureau of Business Research, Iowa studies in business (issues 10-15, page 24)
- The rafts were made up of strings of logs about seventeen feet wide, held together by poles across them. Each log was pinned to the poles by wooden pegs and lockdowns.
- 1931, State University of Iowa. Bureau of Business Research, Iowa studies in business (issues 10-15, page 24)
- French: confinement, enfermement
- German: (a) Einschluss; (b) Ausgangssperre, Lockdown
- Italian: confinamento
- Portuguese: confinamento, bloqueio total
- Russian: локдаун
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