walk-up

American  

[wawk-uhp] / ˈwɔkˌʌp /

noun

1. an apartment above the ground floor in a building that has no elevator.

2. a building, especially an apartment house, that has no elevator.

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adjective

1. located above the ground floor in a building that has no elevator.

2. having no elevator.

3. accessible to pedestrians from the outside of a building.

   a walk-up teller's window at a bank.

walk-up British  

noun

1. informal

   1. a block of flats having no lift

   2. ( as modifier )

      a walk-up block

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Etymology

Origin of walk-up

1915–20, noun, adj. use of verb phrase walk up

Example Sentences

Hawaiian Airlines had the highest week-over-week rise for walk-up fares, climbing 13.6%.

From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026

Betts has walked out to a varied playlist, but his selections are included here because he can boast of one walk-up tune unmatched in baseball history.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2025

Now I am closer to central Lisbon in a comfortable one-bedroom second-floor walk-up in a neighborhood with a lot of stores and restaurants.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

One of Katz’s main tasks is getting more skiers to choose Vail’s slopes, and he says that in pushing people to buy passes ahead of the season, Vail neglected its walk-up ticket strategy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

I love my aunt’s condo—a two-flat walk-up in Chicago’s Old Town neighborhood.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

Related Words

• co-op
• condo
• condominium
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• flat
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