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walk-out

walk-out is the alternative form of walkout.

Meaning of walkout

Noun

walkout (plural walkouts)

  1. (labour) A sudden stoppage of work.
    • Thursday’s walkout occurred three weeks after several dozen employees at warehouses that serve Walmart walked off the job in California and Illinois to protest what they said were onerous conditions, including toiling in warehouses that they said sometimes heat up to 120 degrees.2012 October 5, Steven Greenhouse, “Walmart Workers Stage a Walkout in California”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    strike
  2. A similar mass action of people leaving a place as a form of protest.
    • Many people agreed this play did not belong in the festival: this tied with House on Mayhem Street for most walkouts, and was the subject of much angry discussion afterwards.1986 April 26, Mara Math, “Controversy or Compromise? Feminism Gets Lost Off-stage”, in Gay Community News, page 14
  3. A part of the squat exercise wherein one has to step out from the rack (“walk out” the weight) in order not to hit it during execution.
  4. Synonym of ringwalk (“fighter's glamorous entrance into the ring”).
    Synonyms:
    ringwalk

Forms of walk-out

pluralwalk-outs

Questions about walk-out

What is walk-out the alternative form of?
Walk-out is the alternative form of walkout.

Words near walk-out in the dictionary

  1. walk-offs
  2. walk-on
  3. walk-on girl
  4. walk-on girls
  5. walk-ons
  6. walk-out
  7. walk-outs
  8. walk-over
  9. walk-overs
  10. walk-through
  11. walk-throughs

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