walkaway

IPA: wˈɔkʌweɪ

walk away

IPA: wˈɔkʌweɪ

(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.

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.