0 used to refer to a space used for storing things that is large enough for a person to enter and walk around in:
a walk-in refrigerator
a walk-in wardrobe
1 used to refer to a place that you can go to without an appointment (= an arrangement made in advance):
2 someone who goes to a place without an appointment (= an arrangement made in advance):
With the track sold out and no walk-ins allowed, a crowd of about 51,000 is expected.
Although the restaurant will take walk-ins, reservations are recommended.
3 large enough for a person to enter and walk around in:
a walk-in closet
4 allowing people to come without planning to do so in advance:
Turn right and right again through a door which, in the original building, was the entrance to a large walk-in store cupboard.
There are walk-in centres, minor injury units, community care centres and proposed diagnostic and treatment centres, all of which have little or no night provision.
What profession could supply a walk-in service on a street corner in every tiny community?
The national health service walk-in centres are not open between 10 pm and 7 am.
It is important that we evaluate walk-in centres, which are still pilot projects, before extending the funding nationally.
No decisions have been made about the number or range of further walk-in centres which might be developed in the future.
I was told a year ago that my bathroom would be changed to a walk-in shower.
How often do people come to our surgeries and tell us that all they want—all that represents happiness for them—is a walk-in shower?
