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Employer's ploy
Answer for the clue "Employer's ploy ", 7 letters:
lockout
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A Lockout can be imposed by the Major League Baseball ( MLB lockout ), National Basketball Association ( NBA lockout ), National Football League ( NFL lockout ) or the National Hockey League ( NHL lockout ) if team owners and players fail to come to an ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a management action resisting employee's demands; employees are barred from entering the workplace until they agree to terms
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But the lockout , and the ensuing negotiations, produced a fait accompli that could not be undone. ▪ Employers brought maximum pressure to bear on workers in order to restore order: recalcitrant strikers faced lockouts. ▪ However, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also lock-out , "act of locking out workers," 1854, from lock (v.) + out .
Usage examples of lockout.
Software America sprawled on a humming grid of linkup and lockout, with display screens and logic boards of credit ratings, debt profiles.
Haymarket, class conflict and violence continued, with strikes, lockouts, blacklisting, the use of Pinkerton detectives and police to break strikes with force, and courts to break them by law.
Yuduki Maru had radar, however, and it was possible that even so small a target as that would be picked up at a range of less than ten miles, so the platoon egressed, as planned, through the after lockout compartment.
Lockouts within the control system prevented the gun crew from accidentally aiming their weapon toward the area they were defending.
We can only applaud Captain Chase’s efforts, a man who holds to his word, unlike the strikebreaking and lockout tactics in centres such as Winnipeg and Montreal, which has kept Port Ticonderoga a law-abiding town and clear of the scenes of Union riots, brutal violence and Communist-inspired bloodshed which have marred other cities with considerable destruction of property and injury as well as loss of life.
Adele ran the system architecture a third time, searching for the lockout that protected the Bremse from its own mines.