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Synonyms & Antonyms for walkout
Synonyms: Noun
Synonyms: Verb
bail, bail out, begone, book [slang], bug off, bug out, bugger off [British slang], buzz (off), clear off [chiefly British], clear out, cut out, depart, dig out, exit, get, get off, go, go off, move, pack (up or off), part, peel off, pike (out or off), pull out, push off, push on, quit, run along, sally (forth), scarper [British], shove (off), step (along), take off, vamoose
Antonyms: Verb
arrive, come, show up, turn up
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Examples of walkout in a Sentence
Noun
Hundreds of workers staged a walkout to protest conditions in the factory. after four weeks of the walkout, management gave inVerb
we simply walked out after waiting half an hour for someone to come and serve us the salesclerks walked out upon learning of the second pay cut in six months
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Globally, children have been among those raising the alarm on climate change and calling for action, through a lawsuit and school walkouts. — Caroline Preston, Washington Post, "Teaching global warming in a charged political climate," 6 July 2019 The others were San Jose Middle School and Sofia Mendoza Middle School, which would honor a Latina activist who led a San Jose school walkout in the 1960s. — Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, "New name, new chapter for San Jose middle school," 14 June 2019 Pro-Second Amendment students plan school walkouts across U.S. Students at schools across the nation are poised to walk out of their classrooms for 16 minutes Wednesday to show their support for the Second Amendment. — Editors, USA TODAY, "SpaceX Dragon, Pro-Second Amendment protests: 5 things to know Wednesday," 2 May 2018 Since, Del Valle has organized two other walkouts, one for immigration reform and another for gun violence. — Bianca Sanchez, chicagotribune.com, "These $5 fitness classes in Pilsen are served with a side of social activism," 17 Aug. 2019 Brown played a pivotal in ending the first walkout, in May, by agreeing to kill a gun control bill and legislation that would have tightened the state’s vaccination mandate. — Hillary Borrud | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive.com, "Oregon Gov. Kate Brown plans to veto something — but what?," 30 July 2019 Pilots backed action, including a walkout, with a 93 percent majority, the British Airline Pilots Association said Monday in a statement. — Washington Post, "British Airways pilots authorize labor action," 23 July 2019 Eight months after the Google walkout, four out of seven of the organizers have now left the company. — Fortune, "The ‘Superpower’ Behind Quibi, Meg Whitman’s New Company: The Broadsheet," 17 July 2019 Mar Hicks, a historian who has written extensively about labor in the tech sector, said the kinds of actions many workers had already taken, like the walkouts, were often precursors to unionizing. — New York Times, "Employee Activism Is Alive in Tech. It Stops Short of Organizing Unions.," 8 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'walkout.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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