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7 total sentences available.
These conditions can be changed and the interest of the working class upheld only by an organization formed in such a way that all its members in any one industry, or in all industries if necessary, cease work whenever a strike or lockout is on in any department thereof, thus making an injury to one an injury to all.
Source: tatoeba (7847214)
The machine has a warning placard reminding people to use lockout and tagout.
Source: tatoeba (8606201)
The first was in the Babylonian halls of the big hotel, which was the meeting place of the three commercial magnates concerned with arranging for a coal lock-out and denouncing it as a coal strike, the second was in a curious tavern, having the façade of a grocery store, where met the more subterranean triumvirate of those who would have been very glad to turn the lock-out into a strike—and the strike into a revolution.
Source: wiktionary
It's another front-row lockout for Mercedes on the starting grid of the Japanese Grand Prix.
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include account lockout, arrest, authentication lockout, ban, bar.
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