walkaway
IPA: wˈɔkʌweɪ
noun
- An easy victory; a walkover.
walk away
IPA: wˈɔkʌweɪ
verb
- (idiomatic) To withdraw from a problematic situation.
- (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
- To free oneself from a debt such as a mortgage by abandoning the collateral to the lender. To make a strategic default.
- (idiomatic) To survive a challenging or dangerous situation without harm.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see walk, away.
Examples of "walkaway" in Sentences
- The moment you find out, you’re a walkaway from a Pink Floyd song.
- The aforementioned walkaway made Zherdev an unrestricted free agent.
- The aforementioned walkaway made Zheredev an unrestricted free agent.
- BATNA should not be confused with the reservation point or walkaway point.
- Carl Wiens For instance, you hear a lot of talk about the "walkaway" risk.
- There is a well maintained wooden walkaway with viewing huts along the way.
- That's what I plan to do, if I ever get around to making a "walkaway" dress.
- Cowley is about a five minute walkaway, which is a lively area with a high student population.
- His secret weapons included "walkaway" clauses or "buy-it-if-you-like-it" deals unlike anything the industry had seen.
- DaisyLynn: if you goal is to draft the pattern for the "walkaway" dress as a project, then why not make it any way that you wish?
- Another entry into the ring: I recently posted for sale another version of the 'walkaway' or 'popover' dress that is an updated mid-1960's version by Anne Adams, #4756.
- Mr. Whatley thought that the Salvation Army was having a kind of walkaway, so he slipped out at the back door of the ranch, put Esau into his own wagon and drove away to town.
- In addition, existing disclosures typically failed to make clear in a single place the total amount of "walkaway" pay due a top executive, including severance, pensions, and deferred compensation.
Examples of "walk-away" in Sentences
- When it's time to negotiate, do it fiercely with a walk-away mentality.
- We obtained a walk-away settlement, with the plaintiff dismissing all claims.
- Travel a little further along the continuum of choice over children and you encounter walk-away mom.
- How is it that nobody saw, that in the event of home prices downturns, that these were walk-away, rental loans?
- Before negotiations begin, it's important for a buyer to decide what his walk-away price is, Mr. Carlisle says.
- Much of the evidence remains anecdotal -- although a U.K. survey put the number of walk-away moms there at 100,000, rising 12 percent a year.
- Of course, this is a Yin/Yang: from the SaaS vendor perspective, we have yet to see what the walk-away numbers will look like in this same scenario.
- Today's most advanced designs move toward the goal of 'walk-away safety'—reactors that shut down and cool themselves without electricity or any human intervention.
- Vale's walk-away from Metorex has led to talk that it may again look at the assets of Brazilian copper smelter Paranapanema SA, even despite a failed attempt to purchase the company Sept. 1 in a deal that would have been worth about $1.13 billion.