lockup
锁定,锁上,封锁,锁门
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Definitions
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- : a jail, especially a local one for temporary detention.
- : the act of locking up or the state of being locked up.
- : a temporary imprisonment or detention, as of suspects or prisoners.
- : a stock that has been held by an individual as a long-term investment, or that a brokerage firm is required by a regulation to hold for a certain period of time before it can be sold.
- : any investment or credit instrument, as a renewed loan, in which capital is tied up for a long time.
- : Printing. the entire body of type and cuts locked up in a chase preparatory to printing or platemaking.the act or procedure of locking up type and cuts in a chase.
- : Automotive. a sudden stopping of the rotation of a wheel.
- : British Informal. a rented locker, storage space, or garage.
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Examples
We were traumatized every time we prepared to go out as we don’t know if we are going to be arrested and placed in the lockups.
A few days after Chin’s conviction, his lawyer called me and Caryle Murphy, a reporter from The Washington Post, to interview him in a local lockup.
Rumors swirled that he was a fed in disguise investigating the notorious lockup, or a double spy working for the prison itself.
“I’m not about to do that again,” she said, referring to her night in lockup.
He hasn’t exercised any of his options and his shares are subject to a lockup period that ends in March.
Rita King likely would have disagreed with that sentiment when Evans entered the lockup room in back in April 2011.
He was captured and sent to the U.S. lockup at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Inside a secure so-called lockup room on the top floor of the William McChesney Martin Jr.
MSNBC—home of said preacher and also of Lockup, a reality show about prison that is its biggest draw—can only spin.
Just this Monday, Facebook stock declined to $18.87 in intraday trading on concerns about the lockup expiring.
In accordance therewith a lockup was provided and cells built under the market.
Her most anxious thoughts concerned the means of getting money to Harry's tongue.