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: --
Some eurobonds have a lockup period of 90 days before they can be sold.
lock-up agreement/provision/arrangement Management were barred from selling shares under the terms of a lock-up agreement until 12 July.
The moment the lock-up ended, the company's founders sold as much stock as they could get away with.
In the past it has been possible for a doctor to use a lock-up shop, with hard wooden forms.
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.
For instance, the five-year lock-up period is too long and should be reduced to three years.
That three-month period is half the period of the lock-up of import deposits.
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.
It is also, of course, a convenient lock-up for their money.
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.
She lives in one half and lets the other, whether it be a lock-up shop, or rooms, or something of that sort.
