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walkout
[ wawk-out ]
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.
adjective
- having a doorway that gives direct access to the outdoors:
a walkout basement.
Word History and Origins
Origin of walkout1
Example Sentences
The walkout threatened to hamper train service throughout the Midwest.
The 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.
While 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.
An 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.
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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