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Lockout vs Lockdown - What's the difference?

lockout | lockdown |

As nouns the difference between lockout and lockdown

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 lockdown is (in an institution, such as a prison or school) The confinement of people in their own rooms (or cells) as a security measure after a disturbance.

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

    lockdown

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia lockdown) (en noun)
  • (in an institution, such as a prison or school ) The confinement of people in their own rooms (or cells) as a security measure after a disturbance
  • (US) A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting.