单词 | lock-up |
释义 | lock-up noun 1A jail, especially a temporary one.She has visited scores of penal facilities in Latin America and the United States, including over thirty prisons, jails, and police lock-ups in Brazil....
Synonyms jail, prison, cell, police cell, place of detention, place of confinement, detention centre; North American jailhouse informal cooler, slammer, jug, can, nick, stir, clink, quod, chokey, pen 2British Non-residential premises that can be locked up, typically a small shop or garage: [as modifier]: a lock-up garage...
Synonyms storeroom, store, warehouse, depository, storage space, garage 3 [mass noun] The locking up of premises for the night.The little gas stoves that every inmate uses to make coffee double up as cookers and from the 7.30 pm lock-up the aroma of frying onions signals the start of the preparation of evening meals. 3.1The time when premises are locked up: hurrying back to their houses before lock-up 4 [mass noun] The action of becoming fixed or immovable: anti-lock braking helps prevent wheel lock-up...
5An investment in assets which cannot readily be realized or sold on in the short term.The Agere shares are not subject to a lock-up, so Massana's former shareholders can sell them at any time for cash....
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