walkout

See also: walk out

English

Alternative forms

• walk-out

Etymology

Deverbal from walk out.

Pronunciation

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Noun

walkout (plural walkouts)

1. A sudden stoppage of work.

   Synonym: strike

   Hypernyms: industrial action, labor action

   Coordinate terms: lockout, stayaway, stayout

   • 2012 October 5, Steven Greenhouse, “Walmart Workers Stage a Walkout in California”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     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.

   • 2020 January 2, Conrad Landin, “Strife and strikes in post-war Britain”, in Rail, pages 51–52:

     Despite DoRA [Defence of the Realm Act] being waved about once again, walk-outs did take place on parts of the Great Western Railway in September 1918 - this time predominantly among NUR members.

2. A similar mass action of people leaving a place as a form of protest.
   • 1986 April 26, Mara Math, “Controversy or Compromise? Feminism Gets Lost Off-stage”, in Gay Community News, page 14:

     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.

   • 2020 June 1, Sheera Frenkel, Mike Isaac, Cecilia Kang, Gabriel J. X. Dance, “Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout to Protest Trump Posts”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     The protest group — conducting a virtual “walkout” of sorts since most Facebook employees are working from home because of the coronavirus pandemic — was one of a number of clusters of employees pressing Facebook executives to take a tougher stand on Mr. Trump’s posts.

3. (weightlifting) 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.

Derived terms

• take a walkout powder

 

Related terms

• walk out

Translations

stoppage of work — see strike

similar mass action

• Finnish: ulosmarssi (fi)
• Hungarian: kivonulás (hu)
• Spanish: abandono (es) m

Verb

walkout

1. Misspelling of walk out.

Anagrams

• outwalk