Term:Lockdown

Related terms

• (is the most severe type of) restriction
• (contains) virus transmission

Normative

The term is absent from the corpus.

Research

Definition/description

We define a complete lockdown as everyone stays at home.

Source: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.27.20045302v1

Examples

There will be many critical cases coming from people who were infected before lockdown.

Source: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.27.20045302v1

A massive banquet with 40 000 guests took place just before the lockdown, further exacerbating community spread.

Source: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30129-8/fulltext

The earlier lockdown in China appears to have significantly limited the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic there.

Source: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.14.20035964v2

Collocations

• lockdown policy
• lockdown measure
• lockdown strategy
• enforce lockdown
• impose lockdown
• announce lockdown
• implement lockdown
• initiate lockdown
• residential lockdown
• nationwide lockdown
• strict lockdown
• prevent lockdown
• effective lockdown

Keyness

>1000

Press

Examples

England is now in its third national lockdown, with severe restrictions also imposed in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/brutal-11-ways-covid-pandemic-23315368

Collocations

• national lockdown
• full lockdown
• strict lockdown
• nationwide lockdown
• partial lockdown
• local lockdowns used in the plural form only
• lockdown restrictions used in the plural form only
• lockdown measures used in the plural form only
• lockdown rules used in the plural form only
• to extend the/a lockdown
• to impose a lockdown
• to reimpose a lockdown
• to announce a lockdown
• to lift a lockdown
• to avoid a lockdown

Keyness

9

Comments

Variants and synonyms

• shutdown

Examples

What we need now is a lockdown for the anti-vaxxers.

Source: dailymail.co.uk

If it stops another lockdown and help businesses in the UK to stay open along with being able to travel then it need done.

Source: dailymail.co.uk

stopped flying right before the shutdown and I didn't get on a plane again until July 2021.

Source: nytimes.com

Collocations

• full lockdown
• constant lockdown
• total lockdown
• endless lockdown
• national lockdown
• to announce a lockdown
• to embrace a lockdown
• to demand a lockdown
• to justify a lockdown
• to want a lockdown
• to accept a lockdown
• to need a lockdown
• to continue a lockdown
• to enforce a lockdown

Keyness

• lockdown: 6
• shutdown: >1000