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prelockout

prelockout adjective: before a lockout.

Adjective

prelockout (not comparable)

  1. Before a lockout.
    • His size, however, was considered a barrier, particularly when the prelockout N.H.L. seemed dominated by bigger and bigger players.2008 March 24, Lynn Zinser, “A Rangers Rookie’s Stature Grows With Each Shootout Goal”, in New York Times
    • For the time being the BCC had won, but the unions recovered quickly and prelockout conditions concerning wage rates and craft prerogatives again prevailed.2009, Dominic A. Pacyga, Chicago: a biography, page 151

Origin of prelockout

From pre- + lockout.

Questions about prelockout

What does prelockout mean?
Prelockout means before a lockout.
What part of speech is prelockout?
Prelockout is an adjective.

Words near prelockout in the dictionary

  1. prelocate
  2. prelocated
  3. prelocates
  4. prelocating
  5. prelockdown
  6. prelockout
  7. prelocution
  8. prelocutions
  9. Prelog
  10. prelogging
  11. prelogic

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