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What is a lockdown?

What is a lockdown? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (in an institution, such as a prison or school) The confinement of people in their own rooms (or cells) as a security measure after a disturbance.
  2. (US) A contrivance to fasten logs together in rafting.
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You wax idealistic, which uncages a backlog of dreamy aspirations you've kept in lockdown.
But survivors occasionally breached the lockdown and came to the fence to tell their stories, each one astonishing.
In 2 men cell lockdown the only person that you can fight with is your celly.
More than 100 prisoners were placed on lockdown for the rest of the day following protest early last Monday morning.
Administrators responded with an institution lockdown, confining all prisoners to their cells.
Harding High School, about two blocks east of the crime scene, was placed on lockdown for a short period in the morning.

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