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  • 21lock-up — irrevocable undertaking Also known as a lock up. A binding agreement by a target shareholder to accept a takeover offer. An irrevocable undertaking may be either hard (binding in all circumstances), soft (ceases to be binding if a higher offer… …

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  • 22lock — I verb arrest, attach, band, bar, barricade, block, blockade, bolt, cage, catch, cement, check, cinch, clasp, close, close fast, condudere, confine, connect, couple, curb, cut off, dam, encircle, enclose, enthrall, entwine, fasten, fuse, glue,… …

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  • 23lock up — index capture, commit (institutionalize), confine, contain (restrain), detain (hold in custody) …

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  • 24lock-up — n 1.) a small prison where a criminal can be kept for a short time 2.) also lock up garage BrE a garage that you can rent to keep cars, goods etc in …

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  • 25lock — [n] device that fastens and bars free passage bar, bolt, bond, catch, clamp, clasp, clinch, connection, fastening, fixture, grapple, grip, hasp, hook, junction, latch, link, padlock; concept 499 Ant. key lock [v] fasten, clasp bar, bolt, button,… …

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  • 26Lock — Lock. См. Запор. (Источник: «Металлы и сплавы. Справочник.» Под редакцией Ю.П. Солнцева; НПО Профессионал , НПО Мир и семья ; Санкт Петербург, 2003 г.) …

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  • 27Lock — Lock, 1) (Schifff.), so v.w. Log; 2) (Wollh.), so v.w. Locke 2); 3) Lockung für wilde Thiere …

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  • 28Lock — Lock, Michael, Bildhauer, geb. 27. April 1848 in Köln, gest. 20. Febr. 1898 in Berlin, trat mit zwölf Jahren zu dem Bildhauer Eschenbach in Köln in die Lehre, bei dem er das Holzschnitzen und Steinhauen erlernte, und war anfangs an dekorativen… …

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  • 29lock-on — (lŏkʹŏn , ôn ) n. The start of the automatic tracking of a target, as by a missile. * * * …

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  • 30lock in — index immure, imprison, jail Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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