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  1. Lock-downnoun

    a contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting; -- used by lumbermen

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of lock-down in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of lock-down in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of lock-down in a Sentence

  1. Colin Coleman:

    There is a kind of balance between how much you lock down to save lives and at what point you ease.

  2. Jim Jordan:

    Democrats lock down the economy, pay people not to work, raise your taxes, and now want to give illegal immigrants $450,000 checks paid for by American taxpayers, our bill would make sure the Attorney General can’t unilaterally make that happen.

  3. Dale Fisher:

    There should be the same urgency to vaccinate when you don't have Covid because it's just a matter of time, and we know the social and economic impact when you have to lock down and mass test as a response.

  4. This Entrepreneur:

    We have reoriented our sales energy and team toward actually local sponsorships, where before they were trying to find someone who could host 30 events and we were trying to lock down those deals, now what they are doing is they are trying to find cool breweries and they are trying to find cool spirit companies, cool micro-green producers, cool glassware companies, interesting artists.

  5. Amnesty International:

    ADX itself has ... become almost entirely a 'lock-down' facility in which prisoners are locked in solitary cells for all but a few hours a week.


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