walkout
or walk-out
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 walkout
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How to use walkout in a sentence
The walkout threatened to hamper train service throughout the Midwest.
How the History of Waterloo, Iowa, Explains How Meatpacking Plants Became Hotbeds of COVID-19 | by Bernice Yeung and Michael Grabell | December 21, 2020 | ProPublicaThe day before the walkout, Bezos announced that Amazon would be carbon neutral by 2040, but the protesting employees said that target wasn’t aggressive enough.
Amazon’s activist employees are sowing the seeds of unionization | Geoffrey Colvin | October 16, 2020 | FortuneWhile high-profile employee walkouts and protests have faded in the pandemic era, a new kind of friction, with higher stakes, is on the way.
Amazon is under investigation in New York for firing a worker who participated in a walkout, and it has faced criticism for similar firings that have targeted activists and labor organizers this year.
After public outcry, Amazon deletes listings for 2 intelligence jobs that involved tracking ‘labor organizing threats’ | rhhackettfortune | September 1, 2020 | FortuneAn employee walkout at Pinterest earlier this month underscored the importance of fixing this issue now.
But her fans would have none of it, and demonstrated a walkout on the once liberal singer.
Lindsay Lohan, Jay Leno & More Celebrities’ Week in Hell (Photos) | Anna Klassen | March 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe office of Ted Cruz, who's led the unprecedented witch-hunt against Hagel, hadn't even heard of the walkout threat.
Dear Journalists: Stop Quoting Unnamed GOP Senate Aides Who Lie To You | Ali Gharib | February 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTTo understand a somewhat baffling walkout that has gripped the city, it helps to perceive the personal.
Chicago Teachers Union Winning? What Rahm Emanuel is Up Against | James Warren | September 12, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTMere 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.
Negro Migration during the War | Emmett J. ScottHowever, 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.
The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons | William Z. FosterThis was due largely to the walkout of the railroad men employed in the mill yards, who acted on their own volition.
The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons | William Z. FosterIn Reading and in Lebanon there had been strikes on for many weeks before the big walkout.
The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons | William Z. Foster
British Dictionary definitions for walk out
to leave without explanation, esp in anger
to go on strike
walk out on informal to abandon or desert
walk out with British obsolete, or dialect to court or be courted by
a strike by workers
the act of leaving a meeting, conference, etc, as a protest
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Cultural definitions for walk-out
The action of leaving a meeting, place of work, or organization as an expression of disapproval or grievance: “During Grimm's speech, the radical students staged a walk-out.”
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Other Idioms and Phrases with walkout
Go on strike, as in The union threatened to walk out if management would not listen to its demands. [Late 1800s]
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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