shutout

1. Closing and forbidding entry, as a lockout in which management prevents works from working.

   A shutout is a reverse strike: the union complained and the workers wanted to work, but management was opposed.

2. A game that ends with the losing side being held scoreless.

   The score wasn't just lopsided: it was a shutout.

   a defeat in a game where one side fails to score

1. He had a shutout until the ninth inning.

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