| 词汇 | walkout |
| 释义 | walkout noun[ C ] uk /ˈwɔːk.aʊt/ us /ˈwɑːk.aʊt/ 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: （表示抗议的）退席，退场;罢工 Senior union workers staged(= had) a walkout this afternoon at the annual conference over the proposed changes in funding.在今天下午讨论拟议的专款变动事宜的年度大会上，工会的高层人员退场以示抗议。 See also walk out(LEAVE) Industrial action abstain anti-strike blackleg cooling-off period demarcation dispute job action lightning strike lock lock someone out lockout on strikephrase sit down stoppage strike pay strikebound strikebreaker strikebreaking striker sympathy union-bashing walkout | American Dictionarywalkout noun[ C ] us/ˈwɔkˌɑʊt/ 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. walkout | Business Englishwalkout noun[ C,usually singular ] (alsowalk-out)uk /ˈwɔːkaʊt/us HR, WORKPLACE 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 walkoutCabin crew staged a walkout costing the airline $150m. avert/call off a walkout hold/join a walkout a 24-hour/mass walkout MEETINGS 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. Examples of walkoutwalkout 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. Indeed, the most numerous complaints in the labour archives and the most common source of local conflicts and walkouts during the revolution, are those of millhands against supervisors. This looks as though it was a pretext, this walkout by him—because it does look like a walkout. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There could, therefore, be a walkout in which half the workers might be covered, having given the requisite notice, but the other half might not. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All colliery walkouts are led by chargemen, who may not even go to union meetings. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They start with a spontaneous walkout, sometimes by a relatively small number of people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The truth is that spontaneous walkouts—unoffical or unpredictable protests—take place in every country, in every office and in every factory. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Difficulties will arise if a walkout occurs over, for instance, the dismissal of a shop steward, which was later endorsed by a secret ballot. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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