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Lockout vs Postlockout - What's the difference?

lockout | postlockout |

As a noun 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.

As an adjective postlockout is

after a lockout.

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

    postlockout

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • After a lockout.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 24, author=Lynn Zinser, title=Rangers Fire Renney and Hire His Opposite (Tortorella), work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=He let Jaromir Jagr, the cornerstone of the Rangers’ postlockout success, leave last summer to sign with a Russian team, and he did not re-sign forwards Sean Avery or Brendan Shanahan. }}