LOCKUPS Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

lockups

noun

plural of lockup

as in jails

a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody the firm conviction that juvenile offenders should never be held in adult lockups

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Recent Examples of lockups Companies, remembering the worker shortages that followed the end of COVID-19 lockups, are still reluctant to let go of staff. — Paul Wiseman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026 The mechanics of that phase, lockups, secondary markets, continuation funds, and the pressure venture firms are under to finally return capital to their own investors, are becoming just as important to understand as the IPOs themselves. — Steven Dudash, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026 On Thursday, nearly a billion shares of SpaceX, held by early employees and pre-IPO investors, will finally break free from their lockups. — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026 Woods is focused on CEO Elon Musk's outlook, the rocket maker's path to profitability and upcoming expiration of insider lockups. — Deena Zaidi, CNBC, 3 Aug. 2026 That event will trigger the first wave of stock-sale lockups expiring. — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 16 July 2026 In at least 38 instances, the ring flew six large-payload drones to deliver contraband to federal lockups in Atlanta and Jesup, and at prisons in Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 25 June 2026 That demand, combined with its low float — as lockups keep insiders from selling shares for months — could put upward pressure on SpaceX shares. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 18 June 2026

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Noun

The $1 million would come from the same pool of mostly property-tax dollars that fund police, jails, parks and transit.

— Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2026
And the administration persuaded more and more local police and jails to carry out the president’s mass deportation campaign, sweeping still more immigrants into custody.

— Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 14 Oct. 2026

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The Israeli Supreme Court earlier this year ordered the government to resume sharing such lists and allowing the ICRC to visit detainees in Israeli prisons to assess their conditions.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
Flávio has promised to designate major criminal factions as terrorist groups, expand prisons and lower the age of criminal responsibility.

— Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026

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