lockup
n.— «Remember that tomorrow we’ll have everything that you need on the Budget, the National Budget and don’t miss the Money website. One minute past two our intrepid reporters, three of them, who are inside the lockup, as it is called, so they get to see the Budget from six o’clock tomorrow morning. They will have written all their stories and you’ll be able to go onto Moneyweb at one minute past two and get the information, that is all the information that’s in the Budget. It’s perfectly legal. Trevor Manuel says we can do it. As he starts speaking, the speech becomes publicly available and so does all the other information regarding the Budget. So, you want to get the inside track, you want to be able to brag to everybody else that you know what Trevor is going to say next, well, you can get the speech online and you can get all the other information on this website.» —“Budget preview—Chris Buchanan: Moneyweb” by Alec Hogg Moneyweb (Rosebank, Johannesburg, South Africa) Feb. 20, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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