Lock out
Lock out verb - Prevent employees from working during a strike.
Support
Support verb - To promote the interests or cause of.
Both terms in one sentence
- For example, Chrom in Awakening, who is the most limited in terms of his support options, still has more romance options than the main characters in Elibe and Sacred Stones, and won't lock out of getting them to S-Rank if he goes up to an A support with his best friend first.
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