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S: WHO – https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/336284/Eurohealth-26-2-93-98-eng.pdf (last access: 21 April 2024); NHS – https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/coronavirus-and-lockdown-you-said-we-did/ (last access: 21 April 2024).
N: 1. also lock-down, from late 19c. in various mechanical senses, from the verbal phrase; see “lock” (v.) + “down” (adv.). Prison sense is by 1975, American English.
2. Three meanings as a noun: – the confinement of prisoners to their cells for all or most of the day as a temporary security measure; – an emergency measure or condition in which people are temporarily prevented from entering or leaving a restricted area or building (such as a school) during a threat of danger; – a temporary condition imposed by governmental authorities (as during the outbreak of an epidemic disease) in which most people are required to refrain from or limit activities outside the home involving public contact (such as dining out or attending large gatherings).
. First Known Use: 1973, in the meaning defined at sense 1.
3. Epidemiology; Protection of Life; Emergency Management:
– As a verb: lock down, go under lockdown, confine (calque). Context: Georgia will lock down four big cities, including its capital, Tbilisi, for 10 days … in an effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus … Observation: confine: The term “confine” does not have the meaning of lock down in English. It is used as a synonym under the influence of the French term “confiner” and should be avoided.
– As a noun: lockdown, confinement (avoid, calque).
. An emergency protocol intended to limit travel and gatherings in a population for public health or safety reasons.
. Not to be confused with isolation (a preventive measure against the spread of an infectious disease that involves separating an infected person from non-infected people during the communicable period of the disease) and quarantine (a measure to prevent the spread of an infectious disease in which a healthy person who may have been exposed to an infected person is isolated during the incubation period of the disease).
. confinement: The term “confinement” does not have the meaning of lockdown in English. It is used as a synonym under the influence of the French term “confinement” and should be avoided.
4. Phraseology: complete lockdown, mandatory lockdown, partial lockdown, strict lockdown, voluntary lockdown.
5. Emergency Management; Protection of Life: lockdown, lockdown procedure.
. A procedure that involves confining persons to a building or to a portion of a building or restricting access to it, in response to a major incident or threat of violence regarding the building.
. lockdown; lockdown procedure: terms and definition standardized by the Canadian Capability-Based Planning Terminology Committee and the Translation Bureau (Canada).
. lockdown: term recommended by the Treasury Board.
6. Penal Administration: lockdown, lock-down.
. A status whereby an inmate remains in his/her assigned room each day except for specified activities.
. Securing a correctional facility (total lockdown) or unit (partial lockdown) by restricting prisoner movement to their housing area.
S: 1. Etymonline – https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=lockdown (last access: 21 April 2024). 2. MW – https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lockdown (last access: 21 April 2024). 3 to 6. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=lockdown&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs, https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=isolation&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs, https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=QUARANTINE&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 21 April 2024).
OV: lock-down
S: Etymonline – https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=lockdown (last access: 21 April 2024)
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