walkout

or walk-out

[ wawk-out ]
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noun
  1. a strike by workers.

  2. the act of leaving or being absent from a meeting, especially as an expression of protest.

  1. a doorway in a building or room that gives direct access to the outdoors: a home with a sliding-glass walkout from the living room to the patio.

adjective
  1. having a doorway that gives direct access to the outdoors: a walkout basement.

Origin of walkout

1
1885–90, Americanism; noun, adj. use of verb phrase walk out

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How to use walkout in a sentence

  • Ask one young lady in the company whether she thinks, if she clasped her hands, she could walk out of the room.

  • He would walk out to meet her, burning with impatience; and he would ask for the paper, and see a blank look come over her face.

    Love's Pilgrimage | Upton Sinclair
  • He would believe the promise when his prison door stood open, when he was free to walk out unhindered, not before.

    The Light That Lures | Percy Brebner
  • Now, let us walk out to the end of this point of land, and see if we can discover any opening in the reef.

    Masterman Ready | Captain Frederick Marryat
  • Through Theodore I now offered the guards fifty Turkish pounds if they would turn their backs and let me walk out alone.

British Dictionary definitions for walk out

walk out

verb(intr, adverb)
  1. to leave without explanation, esp in anger

  2. to go on strike

  1. walk out on informal to abandon or desert

  2. walk out with British obsolete, or dialect to court or be courted by

nounwalkout
  1. a strike by workers

  2. the act of leaving a meeting, conference, etc, as a protest

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Cultural definitions for walk-out

walk-out

The action of leaving a meeting, place of work, or organization as an expression of disapproval or grievance: “During Grimm's speech, the radical students staged a walk-out.”

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Other Idioms and Phrases with walkout

walkout

Go on strike, as in The union threatened to walk out if management would not listen to its demands. [Late 1800s]

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