Lockdown vs. Lockout — What's the Difference?

A lockdown is a restriction policy for people or community to stay where they are, usually due to specific risks to themselves or to others if they can move and interact freely. The term "stay-at-home" or "shelter-in-place" is often used for lockdowns that affect an area, rather than specific locations.

The withholding of work from employees and closing down of a workplace by an employer during a labor dispute. Also called shutout.

A protocol followed in an emergency that involves confining people in a secure place, such as the confinement of prison inmates in cells after a disturbance, or the locking of students and teachers in classrooms after a violent attack.

(labor) The opposite of a strike; a labor disruption where management refuses to allow workers into a plant to work even if they are willing.

A situation in which this protocol is undertaken.

The action of installing a lock to keep someone out of an area, such as eviction of a tenant by changing the lock.

A facility, such as a prison, where people considered to be dangerous are locked inside living quarters or otherwise confined.

(by extension) The exclusion of certain people from a place, event, situation, etc.

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 as a non-pharmaceutical intervention in a pandemic.

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.

(US) A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting.

(computing) A situation where the system is not responding to input.

The act of confining prisoners to their cells (usually to regain control during a riot)

A safety device designed to prevent touching a moving part when it is under operation.

(weightlifting) The final portion of a weightlifting motion where all applicable limbs or joints are fully extended or "locked out".

(weightlifting) An exercise meant to increase strength in the lockout portion of a lifting motion.

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.

A management action resisting employee's demands; employees are barred from entering the workplace until they agree to terms