padlocked [美](剧院等)奉当局命令关掉的
Padlock \Pad"lock`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Padlocked}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Padlocking}.]
To fasten with, or as with, a padlock; to stop; to shut; to
confine as by a padlock. --Milton. Tennyson.
- The bookstore was padlocked for a period of time.
- In all, 372,000 jobs vanished as factories padlocked their gates and companies pulled up stakes for sunnier climes.
- The news agency offices were padlocked by police on Wednesday.
- An exterminator told McDowell County officials a padlocked room in the basement of their courthouse could be harboring termites, and when they opened the door last week they found more than just the pesky insects.
- The New York Board of Regents sponsors 17 exams on different subjects, which it distributed to high schools in padlocked safes for administering June 15-22.
- Elizabeth Blackburn, who owns the building with her husband, Art, said she was unaware of the padlocked door on the three-story, wooden-frame building.
- IRS agents padlocked the 104-room bordello Sept. 21, three days after the property owned by Conforte and his wife, Sally, was forced into liquidation.
- Authorities padlocked the stores and seized all inventory. Similar legal action was taken against three stores in Indianapolis _ although those store owners did not appeal to the Supreme Court.
- Law enforcement officials padlocked it and seized its inventory.
- The Park Service prepared to shut down these monuments Saturday and to "padlock everything that can be padlocked," said Bob Walker, a spokesman for the Interior Department.
- A neck noose of padlocked chains was attached to a ring at the top of the box, and his hands were chained to the sides by two pairs of handcuffs.