English Dictionary

lock-in

名詞

アメリカ英語 アイルランド英語 イギリス英語

(US) A sleepover party, usually held in a public place such as a church or school, in which the participants are not allowed to leave until the next morning.

日本語の意味

教会や学校などの公共施設で開催され、参加者が翌朝まで外に出ることを許されず、一晩中滞在する形式のスリープオーバーパーティー。

Our school's annual lock-in at the gym featured games, movies, and strict rules that kept everyone inside until morning.

私たちの学校の年次お泊まり会は体育館で行われ、ゲームや映画があり、朝まで外に出られないという厳しい決まりがありました。

意味（1）

(US) A sleepover party, usually held in a public place such as a church or school, in which the participants are not allowed to leave until the next morning.

The youth group will have their annual lock-in this weekend.

意味（2）

(UK, Ireland) An illegal but widely-tolerated invitation-only gathering in a British pub, after the end of licensing hours, to allow regular customers the opportunity to enjoy further drinking time.

He was a lunatic drunk and started sing songs that lasted into the early hours of the morning and resulted in many weekend lock-ins in the village pub.

意味（3）

(law) A situation in which members of an industry have agreed to adopt a certain standard and have retooled their production to meet this standard, thus making it very costly to change to a different standard.

意味（4）

(finance) The situation where an investor cannot trade without incurring an undesirable penalty such as taxation.

lock-ins （ plural ）