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lock up
verb
Also: lock in. lock 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
Idioms and Phrases
Close a house or place of work, fastening all the doors and windows, as in The attendant locks up at eleven o'clock every night , or Did you remind Abby to lock up? [Late 1500s]
Invest in something not easily converted into cash, as in Most of their assets were locked up in real estate . [Late 1600s]
lock someone up . Confine or imprison someone, as in The princes were locked up in the Tower of London . [c. 1300]
Example Sentences
They couldn't comprehend that their grandparents had arranged to have their own daughter locked up.
“I can’t go target shooting with my wife. All my guns are in storage, locked up. I don’t even have access to them.”
People with first mortgages had vast amounts of equity locked up in their houses; why shouldn’t this untapped equity, too, be securitized?
He also locked up his front left tyre, which presumably gave the stewards the impression that he was not "fully controlled".
The shopkeeper was shot three times on 28 September as he locked up the family business at night.
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