LOCK UP


Meaning of LOCK UP in English

lock up phrasal verb ( see also ↑ lock )

1 . to make a building safe by locking the doors, especially at night:

I’ll leave you to lock up.

lock something ↔ up

Don’t forget to lock up the warehouse.

2 . lock something ↔ up to put something in a safe place and lock the door, lid etc SYN lock away

3 . lock somebody ↔ up to put someone in prison SYN lock away :

Rapists should be locked up.

4 . be locked up (in something) if your money is locked up, you have put it into a business, ↑ investment etc and cannot easily move it or use it

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.