Used in a Sentence

lockdown

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for lockdown.

Editorial note

So just being a cool tool, still gets you installed on 0 corporate pc's that are basicly in lockdown.

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Quick take

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

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of lockdown gathered in one view.

noun

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

noun

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.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for lockdown.

noun

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

noun

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.

Example sentences

1

So just being a cool tool, still gets you installed on 0 corporate pc's that are basicly in lockdown.

2

My right to repair is essentially eliminated when they can completely lockdown the firmware.

3

You'd still have Citrix lockdown environments for any application that you can't rewrite.

4

Shared hosting providers need and do lockdown everything since their adversaries are not only external attackers but also customers with high degree of access.

5

The whole reason reddit went into lockdown mode was because one of their most beloved employees (who happens to be a woman) was fired.

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> Reddit went into virtual lockdown, with many of the sections made private after Victoria Taylor was fired.

7

* Total 8021x-style lockdown of network ports and fascist policies against bringing own devices.

8

This crap is going to get a lot harder to avoid when the Intel SGX instructions are widely deployed and it becomes possible to extend the lockdown from SecureBoot to the kernel and kernel-authorized apps.

9

At this point, we are so inured to gun violence that my SO was at a community college a couple years ago while it had a lockdown because of a shooter on campus.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use lockdown in a sentence?

So just being a cool tool, still gets you installed on 0 corporate pc's that are basicly in lockdown.

What does lockdown mean?

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

What part of speech is lockdown?

lockdown is commonly used as noun.