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walkout

/wawk-out/US // ˈwɔkˌaʊt //

退场,辍学,罢工,退房

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having a doorway that gives direct access to the outdoors: a walkout basement.

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Examples

  • 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.