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walkout Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 the act of leaving an official meeting as a group in order to show disapproval, or of leaving a place of work to start a strike:
- Senior union workers staged (= had) a walkout this afternoon at the annual conference over the proposed changes in funding.
1 the act of leaving a place to show that you are unhappy, or (of workers) the act of stopping work because of a disagreement with management:
- Some people who were unhappy with the changes staged a walkout during the meeting.
- The airline barely averted a walkout by flight attendants this past June.
2 a situation in which workers refuse to continue working and leave their office, factory, etc. to show their employer that they are unhappy about something:
- call/stage/threaten a walkout Cabin crew staged a walkout costing the airline $150m.
- avert/call off a walkout
- hold/join a walkout
- a 24-hour/mass walkout
3 a situation in which a group of people leave a meeting to show that they do not agree with something:
- The meeting ended in a walkout by the union negotiators.

The complaints that precede the walkouts are constructed so as to identify deleterious and generic personal deficiencies.
The walkout tactic is also risky, because it requires high co-ordination and compliance among majority members.
Following the walkout, nobody seems to have been fired.
As well as ending in walkouts, these sequences end with one or both of the par ticipants evidently in an indignant or distraught state.
The sequences that precede the three walkouts are quite long, extending over several pages of transcript.
Although each of the sequences in its detail has features that make it distinctive, it is also possible to discern some common elements in the events immediately preceding the walkout.
One reason for being interested in the shape of arguments preceding walkouts is that they may hold clues as to how more serious argument escalations occur.
When a theatre audience is scandalized by a performance, it often enacts its protest in a highly theatrical way, using catcalls, walkouts, and even fists to express its disapproval.