blackout period
No transactions allowed
A blackout period is a span of time when certain activities are prohibited or restricted.
In finance, corporate insiders face blackout periods when they cannot trade company stock, typically before earnings announcements.
In sports broadcasting, blackout periods prevent local airing of games to encourage stadium attendance.
The term extends to any interval when normal operations are suspended: The airline declared a blackout period for frequent flyer redemptions during the holidays.
- embargoOfficial prohibition on trade
- news embargoBan on releasing information
- tradingExchanging for value
- trading haltTemporary cessation of transactions
- freezeBecome solid from cold
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- blackoutspower outage, power failure, power cut, outage, grid failure
- digital detoxdigital detox, social detox, unplugging, disconnect, dopamine fast
- reentryreentry, reentry vehicle, reentry capsule, heat shield, ablative
- spaceflightlaunch, astronaut, spacecraft, liftoff, orbit
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blackout periodfull coverage
Protection without exclusions
live broadcast · national broadcast · open access · simulcast
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