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- noun Plural form of
lock-in .
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Examples
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"More exits would happen this year because lot of projects would have completed their lock-ins and reached closure, thereby opening up sale opportunities," he added.
Private Equity Exits From Real Estate Likely To Rise Madhurima Nandy of Mint 2011
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Longer lock-ins will only enable more abuse, as VCs will gin up mini-IPOs to unload dogs, then calculate their carry while distributing doomed, locked equity.
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Barring some kind of unforeseen upset, Colin Firth and Natalie Portman are lock-ins for the best actor and best actress Oscars when the Academy Awards air on Sunday night.
Oscars 2011: Craft winning speeches for Natalie Portman and Colin Firth 2011
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Still, key department heads will likely have "lengthy" lock-ins on their holdings to make sure.
Glencore Moves Into the Sunlight Andrew Peaple 2011
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The new lock-ins are being issued barely two months after a previous set of four-year handcuffs were removed from 20 to 30 key staff – which Meyer conceded was a "weakness in the business model" of fund management firms.
Gartmore up for sale amid departures of its top performing fund managers Jill Treanor 2010
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Users cannot do this in today's wireless networks with anti-competitive handset lock-ins and large termination fees.
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Red Hat's CEO: Clouds can become the mother of all lock-ins
Google Docs creates expectations CIOs can't meet, Red Hat CEO says 2010
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Customers want modular architectures and open standards that allow workloads to be portable, and while the cloud can achieve that goal it also "has the potential to be the mother of all lock-ins" if workloads can't be moved from one cloud to another, he said.
Google Docs creates expectations CIOs can't meet, Red Hat CEO says 2010
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I agree with that openness is attractive, and lock-ins are offputting.
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But you are probably better off avoiding long-term lock-ins, and waiting for better opportunities.
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