0 a small room, used as a prison, usually in a small town, in which criminals can be kept for a short time
1 to make a building or room safe by locking the door and fastening the windows:
2 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/arrangement Management 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.
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.
The not so good news is that 8,000 of those properties are lock-up garages.
The boy and his 11-year-old brother admitted breaking into a lock-up shop and an office, and to stealing bicycles and cash.
Have they any means of putting them into some lock-up, prison, or whatever it may be?
She lives in one half and lets the other, whether it be a lock-up shop, or rooms, or something of that sort.
