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walk-in en · ADJ

Etymology

Deverbal from walk in.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, of a place) That may be walked into: ▸ That people may enter without a prior appointment.
    • On multiple occasions, beginning when she was 12, Sara went to her local GP and to walk-in clinics wearing her hijab to get the morning-after pill. 2014 August 29, Ruzwana Bashir, “The untold story of how a culture of shame perpetuates abuse. I know, I was a victim”, in The Guardian:
  2. (US, not-comparable, of a facility) That may be walked into: ▸ Accessed by walking, either exclusively, as a campground, or together with drive-in access, as at some drive-in movie theaters.
    • Aspen is a walk-in tent campground with sites tucked in among the pine 2007, Fred Dow, Suzanne Dow, U. S. National Forest Campground Guide:
  3. (not-comparable, of a closet, qualifier:pantry; refrigerator; freezer; etc; pantry; refrigerator; freezer; etc) That may be walked into: ▸ Spacious enough to walk into.
    • Our roomy superior category double looked out onto the open wraparound promenade through one-way glass that reversed its view at night. The closet was walk-in, and the bath had a full tub. The TV brought in both the BBC and Euronews, ... 1999, Cruise Travel, page 47:
    • My closet was walk-in with plenty of hanging space and drawers, but most of my clothes ended up on the floor anyway. 2017, K M Randall, Blue Sun, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
    • The closet was walk-in, but all the clothes had been shoved to one side over a low dresser. The other side was consumed by shelves spanning from floor to ceiling. Arranged on the shelves were boxes of every shape and size neatly labeled ... 2011, Paradise Avenger, The Breaking of Poisonwood, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 80:
  4. (not-comparable) That may be walked into: ▸ Designed to be possible to walk into (without stepping over a ledge, etc).
    • “The shower is walk in, multiple showerheads and a tiled bench. Take your time, I installed one of those perpetual hot water heaters, so you can have an endless experience. If you're not out in an hour, I'll call 911.” 2016, Douglas E Roff, Jacob A Roff, Cryptid: Discovery, BookBaby, →ISBN:
    • a walk-in bathtub
    • Eighteen-inch ceramic tiles, laid diagonally, made the home seem bigger. Opposite the kitchen was the bedroom wing with a master suite plus two other bedrooms, each having its own bath. All the showers were walk-in. 2018, Forrest Steele, Never Again, Seriously, Archway Publishing, →ISBN:
  5. (not-comparable, of a thief or theft) Gaining access through unlocked doors.
    • … (locations, that are vulnerable to walk-in robbery), which makes isolation of the value from UCR statistics impossible. 1976, Warner A. Eliot, John R. Strack, Alice E. Witter, National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice. National Evaluation Program, Mitre Corporation, Early-warning robbery reduction projects: an assessment of performance, section II, § A, page 6
    • [...], not least because the offence can vary from a quick walk-in theft to planned and targeted plundering. 2010, Andrew Ashworth, Sentencing and Criminal Justice, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 137:

Deriveds

walk-in refrigerator · walk-in closet · walk-in pantry · walk-in freezer

Relateds

walk-up

Translations (4)

es sin cita/reserva/reservación (without appointments before) · ms tanpa janji temu (without appointments before) · de begehbar (spacious enough to walk into) · bg без уговорка (without appointments before)

walk-in en · NOUN

Etymology

Deverbal from walk in.

Meanings

  1. A facility or room which may be walked into: ▸ A relatively small room (such as a closet or pantry) or refrigerator or freezer that is spacious enough to walk into.
  2. A facility or room which may be walked into: ▸ A relatively larger room or (especially) an apartment that is entered directly, not via an intervening passage or lobby.
    • As Officer Byrne watched the front of the building he observed about ten people enter and leave a walk-in apartment unrelated to the buy and bust operation. 1993, Reports of Cases Decided in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York:
    • a walk-in bathroom, a walk-in apartment, lived in a walk-in on Lime Street
  3. A facility or room which may be walked into: ▸ A facility or an event that principally handles customers who do not have an appointment.
    • An increasing demand for skills in niche technologies coupled with higher attrition have prompted these software services firms to organise walk-ins for technology talent too.
    • Most teen clinics are walk-ins.
  4. A facility or room which may be walked into: ▸ A facility accessed on foot rather than by car, usually contrasted to drive-in.
    • This consideration applies to the location of all types of petroleum-solvent cleaning plants, whether operated as delivery plants, drive-ins, walk-ins, or wholesale establishments. 1925, Domestic Commerce Series, page 32:
    • Walk-ins are not like drive-ins, which freeze or isolate the individual in his eco-damaging armour-tool. Walk-ins are freewheeling playgrounds for the naked ape. 1971, Vogue, volume 157, page 466:
    • As most of the food is prepackaged and frozen, and anyone can cook a hamburger or make a malted, drive-in payrolls run a full third under those for "walk-ins" 1961, “Drive-ins Booming: Highway restaurants now a $6 billion annual business.”, in Financial World, volume 115, page 1060:
    • It is undisputed this method of distribution and exhibition would insulate drive-ins from competing with walk-ins for licenses to exhibit first-run pictures, thereby resulting in less film rental to the distributors from the drive-ins. 1978, Trade Regulation Series, volume 12, number 5, page 327:
  5. Someone who walks in (to a place, etc): ▸ A customer, job applicant or similar who visits a restaurant, medical facility, car dealership, etc. without a reservation, appointment, or referral.
    • An astute manager will have a table or two set aside for important regular customers or demanding walk-ins. 1996, Kazuo Nishiyama, Welcoming the Japanese visitor: insights, tips, tactics, page 85:
    • others may be getting their first medication through the new Doorway program at Lakes Region General Hospital, which works with walk-ins as well as people referred by the state's 2-1-1 health services crisis line. 2019 May 3, “As the roads to addiction differ, so do the paths to recovery”, in The Laconia Daily Sun:
    • Any patient with such a history and any woman who has not received prenatal care or who is a walk-in—an unexpected patient with no prenatal chart—will have toxicology labs done, 1996, Susan L. Diamond, Hard Labor, page 275:
  6. Someone who walks in (to a place, etc): ▸ A defector (or similar) who walks into an embassy (etc) unannounced.
    • Still, a rapidly formed working group of Mossad wise men debated the risk in dealing with a walk-in, a volunteer who shows up bearing gifts. 2007 April 10, “[//www.nytimes.com/2007/07/13/opinion/13blum.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Who Killed Ashraf Marwan?]”, in The New York Times, retrieved 18 Sep 2015:
  7. A demonstration or protest in which the participants assemble outside a facility, gain media exposure, and enter the facility in unison.
  8. A person whose original soul has departed the body and been replaced with another.
    • This soul-exchange happens without the body dying. Star People and Walk-ins can be of either orientation—positive or negative—although most from fifth density and beyond are positive. 2011, Gina Lake, ET Contact, page 8:
  9. (qualifier:multiplicity slang) A headmate (fictive, factive, or neither) who shows up in a system fully formed.

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