Synonyms for locking
lock·ing

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1. locking, lockupnoun

   the act of locking something up to protect it

   Synonyms:
   lockup

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1. • Protection

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1. List of paraphrases for "locking":

   lock, lock-up, lockout, blockade, blocking, latching, embargo, phase-lock, foreclosure, lockdown, latch, lock-out, block, blockage, gating

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1. locking

   Synonyms:
   See Phase locking
   

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1. Anders Tegnell:

   Locking people up at home won't work in the longer term, sooner or later people are going to go out anyway.

2. Joseph De-Ville:

   This is the parts of life that people aren't seeing, we're locking it up into credit cards so we can cope, and then we're struggling to pay the debts because [of] the interest rates — because we're having to take high interest rate credit cards just so we can get by.

3. Nate McMillan:

   I think our guys have done a really good job of just locking in to that particular game and not thinking about what happened in the past and not thinking about anything other than what we need to do in that game.

4. Mark Stinde:

   You're trying to be as frictionless for the customer but still prevent the loss, you get a lot of pushback from operations and merchandising teams for locking stuff up.

5. President Bill Clinton on Wednesday:

   I mean, going from conservative Republicans to liberal Democrats and the people in between saying there's too many people in jail and we're not doing enough to rehabilitate the ones you could rehabilitate, we're wasting too much money locking people up who don't need to be there.