walkout
IPA: wˈɔkaʊt
noun
- A sudden stoppage of work.
- A similar mass action of people leaving a place as a form of protest.
- (weightlifting) A part of the squat exercise wherein one has to step out from the rack (“walk out” the weight) in order not to hit it during execution.
verb
- Misspelling of walk out. [(intransitive) To stage a walkout or strike.]
walk out
IPA: wˈɔkˈaʊt
verb
- (intransitive) To stage a walkout or strike.
- (intransitive) To leave suddenly, especially as a form of protest.
- (intransitive, dated) To go out with; to be romantically involved.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To go for a walk outdoors; to go out.
- (transitive) To accompany (someone) as they leave a house or other building.
- (transitive) To continue or persist in carrying (something) out or following through (with something); to persevere.
- (transitive, weightlifting) To step away with when carrying the weight in order not to hit the rack it was lifted off from during execution of the exercise.
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Examples of "walkout" in Sentences
Examples of "walk-out" in Sentences
- Our lot slopes downward, so the basement's walk-out part will have an 1,100-square-foot in-law suite.
- This poem was performed on March 18, 2011, when Hamilton High School students staged a walk-out in protest of budget cuts.
- The one prolonged torture-murder – in a cramped bathroom – is the big walk-out moment, and I rather resented having to sit through it.
- On Wednesday, there's a walk-out of sorts planned: Students said they will leave class at 2 p.m., and then go to the historic Great Hall.
- Does he think the circus-like atmosphere and the walk-out by Wisconsin Democrats have had an impact on their Democratic colleagues in Washington?
- Bob O'Connor for The Wall Street Journal In 1991, Dr. Makadon and Mr. Lesser worked together again to add a large living room, deck and bathroom on the ground floor, plus a make-shift guest bedroom, screened porch and bathroom in the walk-out basement.
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