walk out
— phrasal verb with walk uk/wɔːk/us/wɑːk/verb
(LEAVE)
to leave an event such as a meeting or performance because you are angry or disapprove of something:
All the parents walked out (of the meeting) in protest.
to suddenly leave your husband, wife, or partner and end your relationship with them:
He walked out on his wife and two kids.
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Departing
- abandon
- absquatulate
- backward
- be ready to roll idiom
- bog
- desertion
- drive
- go down
- hit
- parting
- piss
- push along
- push off
- ready
- road
- run
- run away
- sally
- walk off (somewhere)
- without (so much as) a backward glance idiom
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Relationships: ending & divorce
(STOP WORK)
to stop working or leave your job because of a disagreement with your employer:
Workers are threatening to walk out.
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walkout
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Industrial action
- abstain
- blackleg
- cooling-off period
- demarcation dispute
- direct action
- job action
- lightning strike
- lock
- lock sb out
- lockout
- pay claim
- picket
- strike
- strike pay
- strikebound
- strikebreaker
- sympathy
- walk
- walkout
- wildcat strike
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