walk-in
walk-in noun: a relatively small room (such as a closet or pantry) or refrigerator or freezer that is spacious enough to walk into.
Noun
walk-in (plural walk-ins)
- A relatively small room (such as a closet or pantry) or refrigerator or freezer that is spacious enough to walk into.
- A relatively larger room or (especially) an apartment that is entered directly, not via an intervening passage or lobby.
- a walk-in bathroom, a walk-in apartment, lived in a walk-in on Lime Street
- As Officer Byrne watched the front of the building he observed about ten people enter and leave a walk-in apartment unrelated to the buy and bust operation.1993, Reports of Cases Decided in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
- A facility or an event that principally handles customers who do not have an appointment.
- Most teen clinics are walk-ins.
- An increasing demand for skills in niche technologies coupled with higher attrition have prompted these software services firms to organise walk-ins for technology talent too.
- A facility accessed on foot rather than by car, usually contrasted to drive-in.
- This consideration applies to the location of all types of petroleum-solvent cleaning plants, whether operated as delivery plants, drive-ins, walk-ins, or wholesale establishments.1925, Domestic Commerce Series, page 32
- As most of the food is prepackaged and frozen, and anyone can cook a hamburger or make a malted, drive-in payrolls run a full third under those for "walk-ins"1961, “Drive-ins Booming: Highway restaurants now a $6 billion annual business.”, in Financial World, volume 115, page 1060
- A customer, job applicant or similar who visits a restaurant, medical facility, car dealership, etc. without a reservation, appointment, or referral.
- An astute manager will have a table or two set aside for important regular customers or demanding walk-ins.1996, Kazuo Nishiyama, Welcoming the Japanese visitor: insights, tips, tactics, page 85
- Any patient with such a history and any woman who has not received prenatal care or who is a walk-in—an unexpected patient with no prenatal chart—will have toxicology labs done,1996, Susan L. Diamond, Hard Labor, page 275
- A defector (or similar) who walks into an embassy (etc) unannounced.
- Still, a rapidly formed working group of Mossad wise men debated the risk in dealing with a walk-in, a volunteer who shows up bearing gifts.2007 April 10, “[//www.nytimes.com/2007/07/13/opinion/13blum.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Who Killed Ashraf Marwan?]”, in The New York Times, retrieved 18 Sep 2015
- A demonstration or protest in which the participants assemble outside a facility, gain media exposure, and enter the facility in unison.
- A person whose original soul has departed the body and been replaced with another.
- This soul-exchange happens without the body dying. Star People and Walk-ins can be of either orientation—positive or negative—although most from fifth density and beyond are positive.2011, Gina Lake, ET Contact, page 8
- A headmate (fictive, factive, or neither) who shows up in a system fully formed.
Adjective
walk-in (not comparable)
- That people may enter without a prior appointment.
- On multiple occasions, beginning when she was 12, Sara went to her local GP and to walk-in clinics wearing her hijab to get the morning-after pill.2014 August 29, Ruzwana Bashir, “The untold story of how a culture of shame perpetuates abuse. I know, I was a victim”, in The Guardian
- Accessed by walking, either exclusively, as a campground, or together with drive-in access, as at some drive-in movie theaters.
- Aspen is a walk-in tent campground with sites tucked in among the pine2007, Fred Dow, Suzanne Dow, U. S. National Forest Campground Guide
- Spacious enough to walk into.
- Our roomy superior category double looked out onto the open wraparound promenade through one-way glass that reversed its view at night. The closet was walk-in, and the bath had a full tub. The TV brought in both the BBC and Euronews, ...1999, Cruise Travel, page 47
- The closet was walk-in, but all the clothes had been shoved to one side over a low dresser. The other side was consumed by shelves spanning from floor to ceiling. Arranged on the shelves were boxes of every shape and size neatly labeled ...2011, Paradise Avenger, The Breaking of Poisonwood, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 80
- Designed to be possible to walk into (without stepping over a ledge, etc).
- a walk-in bathtub
- “The shower is walk in, multiple showerheads and a tiled bench. Take your time, I installed one of those perpetual hot water heaters, so you can have an endless experience. If you're not out in an hour, I'll call 911.”2016, Douglas E Roff, Jacob A Roff, Cryptid: Discovery, BookBaby, →ISBN
- Gaining access through unlocked doors.
- … (locations, that are vulnerable to walk-in robbery), which makes isolation of the value from UCR statistics impossible.1976, Warner A. Eliot, John R. Strack, Alice E. Witter, National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice. National Evaluation Program, Mitre Corporation, Early-warning robbery reduction...
- [...], not least because the offence can vary from a quick walk-in theft to planned and targeted plundering.2010, Andrew Ashworth, Sentencing and Criminal Justice, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 137
walk-in meaning in Malay
walk-in in Malay
- without appointments before
- tanpa janji temu
Examples of walk-in in a sentence
- Walk-ins are not like drive-ins, which freeze or isolate the individual in his eco-damaging armour-tool.1971, Vogue, volume 157, page 466:
- My closet was walk-in with plenty of hanging space and drawers, but most of my clothes ended up on the floor anyway.2017, K M Randall, Blue Sun, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
Forms of walk-in
| plural | walk-ins |
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Origin of walk-in
Deverbal from walk in.
Words formed from walk-in
Phrases with walk-in
Questions about walk-in
- What does walk-in mean?
- Walk-in means a relatively small room (such as a closet or pantry) or refrigerator or freezer that is spacious enough to walk into.
- What is walk-in in Malay?
- Walk-in in Malay is tanpa janji temu. See Walk-in meaning in Malay.
- How do you use walk-in in a sentence?
- Walk-ins are not like drive-ins, which freeze or isolate the individual in his eco-damaging armour-tool.
- What part of speech is walk-in?
- Walk-in can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of walk-in?
- The plural of walk-in is walk-ins.
Words near walk-in in the dictionary
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