lock-in(PUB)
to prevent someone from ending or changing a financial arrangement: 把（某人）锁定在财务协议上（阻止其终结或改变）
Most cell phone contracts lock you in for a fixed period.绝大部分手机合同会将顾客锁定一段时间。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Locking and bolting
bar
batten
bolt
handcuff
hermetically
latch
lock
lock (something) up
lock someone out
lock something away
lockable
love lock
manacle
padlock
relock
self-locking
shut
shut someone away
under lock and keyidiom
unlockable

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Business - general words
lock-in
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈlɒk.ɪn/ us /ˈlɑːk.ɪn/

lock-innoun[C] (FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENT)

a length of time during which you are not allowed to end or change a financial arrangement: （财务协议）锁定期间
Your new mortgage may have a long lock-in period, particularly if you go for a fixed rate.你的新住房按揭可能有一长段锁定期间，尤其如果你申请固定利率的话。

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Plans and arrangements
accommodation
appointed
arrangement
arranger
backstop
blueprint
counter-strategy
counter-tactic
design
done
exit strategy
non-programme
package deal
party line
plan of action
planning
policy
policy-maker
preparation
walk-in

lock-innoun[C] (PUB)

UKinformal
an occasion when a pub locks its doors and allows people to continue drinking illegally after the time when it should have closed: （在法定时间之后）酒吧（关上门）非法延长营业
There was a lock-in at my local last night.昨晚我家附近的一家酒馆关门后非法营业。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Selling & serving alcoholic drinks
bar
barkeeper
barmaid
barman
bartend
cocktail lounge
cut something off
free house
gastropub
hostelry
innkeeper
landlady
landlord
nineteenth
public bar
public house
publican
roadhouse
saloon
saloon bar

lock in sth | Business English

lock in sth

phrasal verb with lockverbuk /lɒk/us
to get and keep an advantage such as a low price for something:
People are rushing to purchase homes and lock in affordable mortgage rates before they increase.
 be locked in a battle/struggle/dispute
to be involved in a disagreement in which the two sides have a lot of difficulty finding a solution:
Butler is currently locked in a legal dispute with his former employers.
lock-in
noun[ C ]
 PROPERTY, STOCK MARKET UKinformaluk /ˈlɒkɪn/ us /ˈlɑːk-/
a length of time during which you are not allowed to end a financial agreement:
Your new mortgage may have a long lock-in period.
There are no lock-ins with our financial products.

Examples of lock something in

lock something in
I show that lock-in can occur over a wide range of values for the extrapolation parameter and the coefficient of relative risk aversion.
Unfortunately, little is known about the probability of lock-in.
We cannot thus define lock-in or synchronization such that the shedding frequency is necessarily close to the natural frequency.
Furthermore, the support of the conservative constituency made possible institutional development that combined elements of lock-in with institutional developments that altered the education policy.
This has implications for the lock-in phenomena in the stochastic models of increasing return economics and the sample complexity of stochastic approximation algorithms in engineering.
In either case, as declines, the extrapolative forecast becomes less accurate relative to the alternatives, making lock-in less likely to occur.
The term "lock-in" borrows from the concept of path dependence in problems involving the choice among competing technologies.
This is recalled in the next section in some detail because these very details form the backdrop of our analysis of the lock-in probability.
Using a 6.3mm diameter cylinder in a 120mm duct, they found lock-in occurred a t a speed of about 46 m s-1.
The intuition for why lock-in occurs is straightforward.
Educational changes have been continuously promoted, but confronted and rejected through lock-in mechanisms.
Note that the uncertainty in the phase data are higher a t locations of smaller fundamental amplitudes due to reduced sensitivity of the lock-in amplifier a t low signal levels.
The failure to expand or maintain water supply, wastewater and waste collection systems after 1970 was only to some degree determined by a technical lock-in produced by past investment decisions.
He explores processes of political lock-in, including and above all the way in which positive feedback affects the organizational and formalinstitutional arrangements that structure politics and policy making.
We have argued that changed objectives at the central level illustrate conversion, but the resistance of school managers reflects the existence of lock-in mechanisms at the level of implementation.
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