Walkout (Noun)
Meaning 1
The act of walking out (of a meeting or organization) as a sign of protest; "there was a walkout by the Black members as the chairman rose to speak".
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The union staged a walkout in response to the company's refusal to negotiate better wages and benefits.
- A walkout by the student body was organized to protest the school's decision to cut funding for arts programs.
- The walkout by the nurses was a last resort after months of failed negotiations with hospital administrators.
- During the contentious meeting, several board members staged a walkout in protest of the proposed policy changes.
- The walkout by the actors' guild brought production on the film to a grinding halt.
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Meaning 2
A strike in which the workers walk out.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The workers held a walkout at the factory after management refused to negotiate for higher wages and better benefits.
- Hundreds of students participated in the walkout to protest against climate change.
- Union members decided on a walkout if the new labor agreement was not implemented.
- Over a thousand workers at the factory are considering a walkout unless they get paid what they demand.
- It seemed to everyone at the manufacturing facility like every new unfair work proposal they suggested increased their likely-hood for instigating employee mass walkouts in huge public union affairs daily to face loss financially even affecting everything until strikes won long afterwards before money moved fully next March.scalablytyped