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Walkout

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    the act of walking out (of a meeting or organization) as a sign of protest wordnet
  3. 3
    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."

  4. 4
    a strike in which the workers walk out wordnet
  5. 5
    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.
Verb
  1. 1
    Misspelling of walk out. alt-of, misspelling

Etymology

Etymology 1

A deverbal from walk out.

Etymology 2

A deverbal from walk out.

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