Meanings
plural lockaways
- businessA long-term investment to be left alone until some future time.
He thinks investment trusts should be viewed as long-term lockaways, which can be held almost indefinitely, so he steers clear of more aggressively managed trusts.
1997, Investors Chronicle, volume 122, numbers 1548-1558, page 621 more example
For the investor, the indications are that the shares of soundly managed important airframe makers are the best current aircraft industry buys for long term lockaways.
1955, Aircraft, volume 34, page 30
Origin
Deverbal from lock away.
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