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 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 At least 20% of the shares will be released after second-quarter results are disclosed sometime in the coming months, with all the lockups expiring in December. — Los Angeles Times, 23 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lockups
  1. jails
  2. penitentiaries
  3. prisons
Noun
  • They have been used in recent years by some jails and police departments.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Unlike prisons, jails are designed for short-term detention rather than prolonged confinement.
    — Jillian Turanovic, The Conversation, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of jails
Noun
  • Hodge says he was abused in multiple federal penitentiaries, but was frequently blocked from filing complaints about it.
    — Christie Thompson, NPR, 13 July 2026
  • This includes providing the Colombian military more leeway in the field, signing a new security agreement with Washington and building 10 mega-prisons that mimic Bukele’s network of penitentiaries in El Salvador.
    — Daniel DePetris, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2026
Definition of penitentiaries
Noun
  • Continue reading … CITY LIMITS – Mamdani clashes with Democratic Socialists' push to abolish police and prisons.
    — , FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2026
  • This is probably part of why, in 2024, the New York State Department of Corrections placed prisons on lockdown and let the guards watch the eclipse, but would not let tens of thousands of the imprisoned see it.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of prisons

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