walkaway
Americannoun
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an easy victory or conquest.
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a patient or inmate who escapes from an institution by walking away when not being supervised or guarded.
Etymology
Origin of walkaway
First recorded in 1885–90; noun use of verb phrase walk away
Example Sentences
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Alas, there was no joy in Dudville: Marshall lost in a walkaway, 17-4.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2018
The collapse his novel describes is eased not by state action or the marketplace but by a walkaway network driven by the gift economy, a model anthropologists think dates to prehistory.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2017
Buchanan won in a walkaway, but his presidency was a disaster from the beginning.
From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2016
Leahy joined Airbus in 1985 and made a reputation for cutting innovative "walkaway" deals to boost its market share from 18 percent, when he became sales chief in 1994, to around 50 percent.
From Reuters • Sep. 28, 2015
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.
From Remarks by Nye, Bill
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