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词汇 lock-up
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lock (something) up


phrasal verb with lockverbuk /lɒk/ us /lɑːk/
to lock all the doors and windows of a building when you leave it: 锁好(门窗)
Sandra, will you lock up tonight when you go?桑德拉,你今晚离开时把门窗都锁上好吗?
They locked the house up and went away for two months.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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

lock someone up


phrasal verb with lockverbuk /lɒk/ us /lɑːk/
to put someone in a prison or a hospital for people who are mentally ill: 将(某人)投入监狱;将(某人)关进精神病院
Murderers should be locked up for life.杀人犯应该被终身监禁。
lock someone up and throw away the keyAfter what she did, they should lock her up and throw away the key (= lock her up until she dies).鉴于她的所作所为,他们应该把她永远关在监狱里。
See also
lock-up
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Putting people in prison
at His/Her Majesty's pleasureidiom
bang someone up
bar
behind barsidiom
bird
commit
immured
imprison
imprisonment
in custody
incarcerate
intern
lock
pen
remand someone in custody
restraint
rot
rot in jail, prison, etc.idiom
self-surrender
stretch
lock-up
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈlɒk.ʌp/ us /ˈlɑː.kʌp/
a small room, used as a prison, usually in a small town, in which criminals can be kept for a short time(通常指位于小镇上的)监禁室,禁闭室,拘押室
mainly UK
a building where objects, especially a car, can be safely kept库房;(尤指)车库
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Prisons & parts of prisons
approved school
Bastille
boot camp
borstal
brig
gaol
gaoler
halfway house
HMP
open prison
panopticon
penal colony
penitentiary
prison
straightjacket
straitjacket
the gulag
warder
young offender institution
youth custody

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Buildings for storing things

lock up | American Dictionary


lock up


phrasal verb with lockverb[ I/T ]us/lɑk/

(DOOR)


to make a building or room safe by locking the door and fastening the windows:
Don't forget to lock up when you leave the house.

lock someone up


phrasal verb with lockverb[ I/T ]us/lɑk/

(IN PRISON)


to put someone in prison:
If found guilty, he could be locked up for life.

lock-up | Business English


lock-up
noun[ C ]
(alsolockup)ukus
STOCK MARKET
an agreement or period of time during which someone cannot get back the money they have invested:
The moment the lock-up ended, the company's founders sold as much stock as they could get away with.
lock-up agreement/provision/arrangementManagement were barred from selling shares under the terms of a lock-up agreement until 12 July.
Some eurobonds have a lockup period of 90 days before they can be sold.
UK
a building used for storing things safely:
He stores the goods in a lock-up he rents near the market.

Examples of lock (something) up


lock (something) up
He also recommended rules for maintaining cleanliness and order, and a lock-up to punish individuals who "misbehaved" or broke the rules.
Following the development of a thrust fault, increased strain with continued deformation may have led to 'work hardening' and lock-up within the shear zones.
On his release from the police lock-up he was sent to the hospital to have his various wounds seen to, and then brought back to the village.
In contrast, shops are normally separate lock-up establishments in a defined space and much easier to defend.
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The not so good news is that 8,000 of those properties are lock-up garages.
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The boy and his 11-year-old brother admitted breaking into a lock-up shop and an office, and to stealing bicycles and cash.
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Have they any means of putting them into some lock-up, prison, or whatever it may be?
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She lives in one half and lets the other, whether it be a lock-up shop, or rooms, or something of that sort.
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If the rateable values of a shop with living accommodation and a lock-up shop are the same, the same will be paid in rates.
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It is also, of course, a convenient lock-up for their money.
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The larger company has facilities for transferring trade to branches, facilities which are not open to the ordinary individual who runs a lock-up shop.
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That three-month period is half the period of the lock-up of import deposits.
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For instance, the five-year lock-up period is too long and should be reduced to three years.
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It is quite right that lock-up garages, storage premises and other such hereditaments should not be subject to the council tax in their own right.
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In the past it has been possible for a doctor to use a lock-up shop, with hard wooden forms.
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