walkout

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Noun

Singular walkout

Plural walkouts

1. (countable) A walkout is when workers suddenly stop working.
   • Synonym: strike

   Teachers in Oklahoma are going to do a walkout.

2. (countable) A walkout is when many people leave a place to protest something.
   • Synonyms: protest and demonstration

   Students took part in a high school walkout to protest gun laws.

Related words

• walk
• out
• walk out