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Lockout vs Gherao - What's the difference?

lockout | gherao |

As nouns the difference between lockout and gherao

is that lockout is the opposite of a strike; a labor disruption where management refuses to allow workers into a plant to work even if they are willing while gherao is (india) a protest in which a group of people surrounds a politician, building, etc until demands are met.

As a verb gherao is

(india|transitive) to surround for this purpose.

lockout

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The opposite of a strike; a labor disruption where management refuses to allow workers into a plant to work even if they are willing.
  • The action of installing a lock to keep someone out of an area, such as eviction of a tenant by changing the lock.
  • (computing) A situation where the system is not responding to input.

    • Antonyms

    * (denial of work) strike; industrial peace

    gherao

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia gherao) (en-noun)
  • (India) A protest in which a group of people surrounds a politician, building, etc. until demands are met.
  • * 2002 , Bharti Kirchner, Darjeeling , St. Martin's Press (2002), ISBN 0312286422, page 26:
    • They had done a gherao and trapped the manager in his office for a whole day.
  • * 2007 , Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy , Macmillan (2007), ISBN 9780330396110, page 425:
    • This was an invitation to strike: according to one estimate, there were more than 1,200 gheraos in the first six months of the first UF-LF government.
  • * 2011 , Arun Sinha, Nitish Kumar and the Rise of Bihar , Viking (2011), ISBN 9780670084593, page 40:
    • They led us in a mob to the administrative office of the Patna University, blockaded the main entrance and besieged the vice chancellor's office in a gherao

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (India) To surround for this purpose.
  • * 1996 , Kavery Nambisan, The Scent of Pepper , Penguin (2010), ISBN 9780140264432, page 215:
    • One day the city magistrate asked the army for help to curb a protest march by women Congress workers who had threatened to gherao the officials in the divisional office.
  • * 2006 , Shakuntala Devi, Employment of Labour and Rural Development , Sarup & Sons (2006), ISBN 8176257168, page 53:
    • In reply, the cultivators, apparently now protesting under the banner of the BKU gheraoed the power station.
  • * 2010 , B. G. Verghese, First Draft: Witness to the Making of Modern India , Tranquebar Press (2010), ISBN 9789380283760, unnumbered page:
    • Further incensed by the findings of two Citizen's Inquiry Committees that he had set up to probe the earlier police firings in Gaya and Patna, JP now announced a programme that involved picketing the Assembly, gheraoing the residences of MLAs,