lockdowns
- 1Plural of lockdown.
Successive lockdowns disrupted supply chains across the region.
Public health officials defended the lockdowns as a necessary precaution.
Note
Only the countable use takes an s. In a phrase like "under lockdown," the word names a condition and has no plural. The plural counts separate episodes instead: repeated confinements in a prison or a school, or across a whole city during a pandemic. The same spelling also covers an American rafting term, meaning several contrivances for fastening logs together.
lockdowns is a form of lockdown
lockdown, noun: The confinement of people to their rooms, cells, homes, or surrounding areas, imposed as a security measure during a disturbance or as a public-health response in a pandemic. Full entry
- Forms
- lockdownlockdowns plural
- Spelling
- lockdown → lockdowns: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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