lockaway

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noun

A long-term investment to be left alone until some future time.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

nounlockaway (plural lockaways)

plural lockaways

  1. 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 62
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    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

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APA

lockaway. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lockaway

MLA

“lockaway.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lockaway. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lockaway,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lockaway.

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