Synonyms of lockups

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• jails
• penitentiaries
• prisons
• brigs
• stockades
• pens
• coolers
• coops
• cages
• pokeys
• big houses
• nicks
• bastilles
• hocks
• jugs
• guardrooms
• dungeons
• slammers
• jailhouses
• clinks
• quods
• tanks
• bridewells
• joints
• cells
• tolbooths
• cans
• stirs
• hoosegows
• slams
• calabooses
• wards
• bull pens
• holds
• holes
• hulks
• gulags
• guardhouses
• concentration camps
• reformatories
• prison camps
• labor camps
• blocks
• keeps
• work camps
• reform schools
• glasshouses
• training schools
• stalags
• oubliettes

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• outsides

Example Sentences

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