lock-in
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Etymology
Noun
- (US) A sleepover party, usually held in a public place such as a church or school, in which the participants are not allowed to leave until the next morning.
- Synonym: wakeover
- The youth group will have their annual lock-in this weekend.
- (UK, Ireland) An illegal but widely-tolerated invitation-only gathering in a British pub, after the end of licensing hours, to allow regular customers the opportunity to enjoy further drinking time.
- 2009, Annette J. Dunlea, Always and Forever, page 53:
- He was a lunatic drunk and started sing songs that lasted into the early hours of the morning and resulted in many weekend lock-ins in the village pub.
- (law) A situation in which members of an industry have agreed to adopt a certain standard and have retooled their production to meet this standard, thus making it very costly to change to a different standard.
- vendor lock-in
- (finance) The situation where an investor cannot trade without incurring an undesirable penalty such as taxation.
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