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lock up
verb
- Alsolock inlock away tr to imprison or confine
- to lock or secure the doors, windows, etc, of (a building)
- tr to keep or store securely
secrets locked up in history
- tr to invest (funds) so that conversion into cash is difficult
- printing to secure (type, etc) in a chase or in the bed of the printing machine by tightening the quoins
noun
- the action or time of locking up
- a jail or block of cells
- a small shop with no attached quarters for the owner or shopkeeper
- a garage or storage place separate from the main premises
- stock exchange an investment that is intended to be held for a relatively long period
- printing the pages of type held in a chase by the positioning of quoins
adjective
- lock-up (of premises) without living accommodation
a lock-up shop
Example Sentences
While the desk sergeant ran a background check, he was roughed up by another officer in the lock-up.
Expect more of the unapologetic same the next time: NBC has paid a lot of money to lock up the Olympics through 2020.
The only technical issue I really had (aside from a game lock-up at the end of a particular chapter) was with some pop-in.
His son, he told them, would spend many hours in lock up by himself, and it severely affected him.
Yet the two-day plunge seems too big to blame on just the lock-up expiration.
The place was used as a lock-up for some time after the incorporation, and the old irons were kept on show for years.
One of the punishments Mr Yates had invented was to lock up a culprit in a dark room for several hours together, without food.
Most Wrykinians brewed in the winter and Easter terms, when the days were short and lock-up early.
As he spoke he began carefully to lock up some of the jewels in their little boxes, as if he meant to go away.
Lock-up was still at six, so at a quarter to that hour they slipped down into the vault, and took up their position.
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