Examples of 'lock-in' in a sentence

Meaning of "lock-in"

Lock-in: A situation in which a customer is locked into using a particular product or service due to high switching costs or other barriers to change
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  • A sleepover party, usually held in a public place such as a church or school, in which the participants are not allowed to leave until the next morning.
  • An illegal but widely-tolerated invitation-only gathering in a British pub, after the end of licensing hours, to allow regular customers the opportunity to enjoy further drinking time.
  • A situation in which members of an industry have agreed to adopt a certain standard and have retooled their production to meet this standard, thus making it very costly to change to a different standard.
  • The situation where an investor cannot trade without incurring an undesirable penalty such as taxation.

How to use "lock-in" in a sentence

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We believe lock-in contracts are a thing of the past.
We have issued a campus lock-in this evening.
Presidential approval is not required for a lock-in.
Four lock-in positions can be felt per turn.
So you could reschedule the lock-in later.
Hunger Lock-In helps churches in a foreign missions project.
Duration of the scheme and lock-in period.
Our first lock-in meeting is today after school.
It also increases the risk of a vendor lock-in.
No vendor lock-in by proprietary flash programming.
This has been described as a problem of vendor lock-in.
It allows vendor lock-in as it increases the switching cost.
I am asking you to hold my hand at the lock-in.
These are as much a lock-in as are the public cloud APIs.
Flexible service contract without lock-in period.

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Escaping the lock-in condition requires overcoming these barriers.
This enables customers to avoid vendor lock-in.
But without the software lock-in and complications.
Architectural flexibility to eliminate silos and lock-in.
The procedure of a described method of lock-in position is as follows.
He is concerned about trends towards new forms of lock-in.
This would prevent a technological lock-in being applied by market players.
Vendor portability and avoidance of vendor lock-in.
If you want to lock-in your savings then act now.
I was thinking more like an overnight lock-in.
The payment is subject to the lock-in provision described below.
Those better be the movies for the lock-in.
Lock-in dates vary depending on your immigration program or category.
I am totally fine with the whole lock-in thing.
A lock-in takes place if a threat is identified outside the school.
One more volunteer teacher for the lock-in.
We must not lock-in problematic technologies for generations to come.
Hurry up so we can bash this thing at the lock-in.
The Lock-In allows you to sleep inside the museum.
You are really excited about the school lock-in.
The lock-in period also depends on the age of investor.
Containers have been posited as a way to avoid this lock-in.
We would consider a three to five year lock-in period to be reasonable.
Developer costs come in the form of complexity and lock-in.
Therefore illustrates the possibility of lock-in of natural gas technology.
This game is very difficult and usually resulted in a lock-in.
The following are the vertical lock-in positions for bounced flash.
Proprietary software means vendor lock-in.
There exist lock-in situations that are both monopolistic and collective.
Then there is the risk of infrastructure lock-in to consider.
The operation of a lock-in amplifier relies on the orthogonality of sinusoidal functions.
We believe in transparency and no lock-in contracts.
Lock-in the benefits of competitive airport infrastructure with firm regulation.
Please tell me you did not set up this lock-in so that.
He reckons that the pub lock-in is all part of police culture.

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