lockup

n.

1. Informal. A jail, especially one in which offenders are held while awaiting a court hearing.
2. 1. The act or an instance of locking.
   2. The state of being locked.

noun

A place for the confinement of persons in lawful detention: brig, house of correction, jail, keep, penitentiary, prison. Informal pen³. Slang big house, can, clink, cooler, coop, hoosegow, joint, jug, pokey¹, slammer, stir². Chiefly Regional calaboose. See free/unfree.

A building or room for the temporary detention of prisoners by police.

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A place of detention in a police station, court or other facility used for persons awaiting trial. In corporate law, a slang term that refers to the setting aside of securities for purchase by friendly interests in order to defeat or make more difficult a takeover attempt. A lockup option is a takeover defensive measure permitting a friendly suitor to purchase divisions of a corporation for a set price when any person or group acquires a certain percentage of the corporation's shares. To be legal, such agreement must advance or stimulate the bidding process, to best serve the interests of the shareholders through encouraged competition.

Dansk (Danish)
n. - skur, garage, arrest, detentionslokale, lukning, lukketid

Nederlands (Dutch)
cachot, arrestantenlokaal, sluitingstijd, vastlegging van kapitaal, privé-garage/ -hangar

Français (French)
n. - cellule (arch), action d'enfermer, le fait d'être enfermé

Deutsch (German)
n. - Gefängnis, Torschluß

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - φυλακή, κρατητήριο

Italiano (Italian)
guardina, immobilizzo

Português (Portuguese)
n. - empate (m) de capital (Fin.), prisão (f)

Русский (Russian)
запирание, время закрытия, камера предварительного заключения, гараж для автомобиля

Español (Spanish)
n. - cárcel, jaula, encierro, cierre de una puerta, cierre de una fábrica o empresa por parte del patrón

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - stängning, stäng(nings)dags, fastlåsning av kapital, fastlåst kapital, arrest, finka

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
锁住, 监狱, 监禁

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 鎖住, 監獄, 監禁

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 자물쇠 잠금, 조판의 고정, 폐쇄시간, 고정[자본]

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 錠をおろすこと, 門限, きちんと鍵のかかる, 固定資本, 組版の固定, 刑務所

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) إقفال, إنقفال, زنزانه في سجن, بنايه السجن‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮בית מעצר, כלא, נעילה ללילה, חנות או מחסן, הון מושקע שלא נשא פירות‬

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