"lock" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

lock verbo

lock + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 30
lock eyes • lock one's arms • lock horns • lock the door • lock one's hands • ...
(2) horn, door, car, bar, lug
Kolokacji: 5
(3) hand, file
Kolokacji: 2
(5) window, leg, key
Kolokacji: 3
(6) gaze, glance
Kolokacji: 2
(7) people, customer, worker
Kolokacji: 3
1. lock people = ludzie zamka lock people
2. lock customers = klienci zamka lock customers
  • The company sees it as an obvious consumer benefit, but competitors see it as a tremendous step toward locking customers into Microsoft's products.
  • This tended to lock customers in to a single vendor.
  • Some Hailstorm features are viewed by some industry experts and rival executives as a way to lock customers into Microsoft's products and services.
  • Corporations looooooove unpatented innovation, that cannot be used to lock customers in, and competitors out.
  • TVL does not have data caps but does lock customers into a 12-month contract.
  • Sun portrays Microsoft as irredeemably wedded to a strategy of trying to lock customers to Windows and extend its monopoly from the desktop PC business into corporate data centers.
  • The bandits locked the employees and customers into the safe and scooped up $6,000 in cash and $4,000 in bonds from the vault.
  • IBM, in particular, helped create barriers that tended to lock customers into a single platform.
  • What is more, they say, the company has locked customers into contracts that will guard it temporarily from any slump in price.
  • As New Mexico attorney general from 1986 to 1990, Mr. Stratton took on an auto dealership accused of locking recalcitrant customers in rooms until they agreed to buy a car.
3. lock out one's workers = zamykać na klucz na zewnątrz czyjś robotnicy lock out one's workers
(8) pin, ring, differential
Kolokacji: 3
verbo + lock
Kolokacji: 8
find locked • keep locked • start locking • avoid locking • remember locking • ...
lock + preposición
Kolokacji: 37
lock up • locked into • lock down • lock behind • lock onto • lock out • ...
lock + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 35
locked away • locked together • securely locked • automatically lock • locked tight • ...

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