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walkout

or walk-out

[ wawk-out ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

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

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

Origin of walkout¹

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

But her fans would have none of it, and demonstrated a walkout on the once liberal singer.

The office of Ted Cruz, who's led the unprecedented witch-hunt against Hagel, hadn't even heard of the walkout threat.

To understand a somewhat baffling walkout that has gripped the city, it helps to perceive the personal.

Mere alluding to the walkout was sure to get a strong response from the suburban Republican crowd, and it did, said one attendee.

From some perspectives, the walkout borders on the irrational.

He related that a gang of workers had come to him with certain complaints and the threat of a walkout.

However, the impression still prevails that a few days will see an end of the walkout.

For the most part the great walkout was concentrated on the smelting and rolling branches of the steel industry.

This was due largely to the walkout of the railroad men employed in the mill yards, who acted on their own volition.

In Reading and in Lebanon there had been strikes on for many weeks before the big walkout.

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