lock up

Word family adjectivelockablelockfastlocklessnounlockagelockfullockawaylockdownlockhouselockjawlockmanlocknutlockoutlockpicklocksmanlocksmithlocksteplockstitchlock

Examples from the Corpus

lock up• He always keeps his desk locked up.• You should take basic precautions like locking your car up.• It costs $23,000 a year to lock up an adult.• Rapists deserve to be locked up for the rest of their lives.• Locking up more criminals has helped to reduce the crime rate and produce safer streets.• I had locked up my office for the night and gone home.

be locked up (in something)• That's what Lee had gone home to check, that Caspar was locked up.• All the back-benchers lit Parliament were locked up along with the six ministers at State House.• I was locked up for nine years, you know that?• Much more was locked up in that house than the storeroom at its core.• His fa-ther was locked up somewhere in a place called Applegate.• It was locked up somewhere round at the back.

ˈlock-up noun [countableC]

1. PRISONa small prison where a criminal can be kept for a short time 临时拘留所，临时羁押场所

2. (also lock-up garage) British EnglishBrE a garage that you can rent to keep cars, goods etc in 可租用的车库[货仓]

Examples from the Corpus

lock-up• In deference to his age, however, they did not put him in lock-up.• They had taken their instruments with them to the lock-up.• He looked back and listened to the pounding on the door, until the lock-up was out of sight.

From Longman Business Dictionary

lock something → up phrasal verbphr v [transitiveT]FINANCE

to invest money or keep it in such a way that it not available to be usedSYN lock away

Mutual funds are an appropriate vehicle for income-seeking investors who don’t want to lock their money up.

→ see also lock-up

→ lock

lock-upˈlock-up adjectiveadjFINANCE

1lock-up agreement/pact an agreement by which money is invested in such a way that it cannot be used for a period of time

2lock-up period a period of time during which money is invested in such a way that it cannot be used

单词	lock up
释义	lock up Word family adjectivelockablelockfastlocklessnounlockagelockfullockawaylockdownlockhouselockjawlockmanlocknutlockoutlockpicklocksmanlocksmithlocksteplockstitchlock Examples from the Corpus lock up• He always keeps his desk locked up.• You should take basic precautions like locking your car up.• It costs $23,000 a year to lock up an adult.• Rapists deserve to be locked up for the rest of their lives.• Locking up more criminals has helped to reduce the crime rate and produce safer streets.• I had locked up my office for the night and gone home. be locked up (in something)• That's what Lee had gone home to check, that Caspar was locked up.• All the back-benchers lit Parliament were locked up along with the six ministers at State House.• I was locked up for nine years, you know that?• Much more was locked up in that house than the storeroom at its core.• His fa-ther was locked up somewhere in a place called Applegate.• It was locked up somewhere round at the back. ˈlock-up noun [countableC] 1. PRISONa small prison where a criminal can be kept for a short time 临时拘留所，临时羁押场所 2. (also lock-up garage) British EnglishBrE a garage that you can rent to keep cars, goods etc in 可租用的车库[货仓] Examples from the Corpus lock-up• In deference to his age, however, they did not put him in lock-up.• They had taken their instruments with them to the lock-up.• He looked back and listened to the pounding on the door, until the lock-up was out of sight. From Longman Business Dictionary lock something → up phrasal verbphr v [transitiveT]FINANCE to invest money or keep it in such a way that it not available to be usedSYN lock away Mutual funds are an appropriate vehicle for income-seeking investors who don’t want to lock their money up. → see also lock-up → lock lock-upˈlock-up adjectiveadjFINANCE 1lock-up agreement/pact an agreement by which money is invested in such a way that it cannot be used for a period of time 2lock-up period a period of time during which money is invested in such a way that it cannot be used
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