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walk-in

noun 11
adjective 6
walk in verb 2
forms 4

noun11

Someone who walks in (to a place, etc).
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.
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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
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A facility or an event that principally handles customers who do not have an appointment.
- Most teen clinics are walk-ins.
- 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.
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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
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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
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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
A demonstration or protest in which the participants assemble outside a facility, gain media exposure, and enter the facility in unison.
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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
A headmate (fictive, factive, or neither) who shows up in a system fully formed.

adjective6

That may be walked into:
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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
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(US) 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
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Spacious enough to walk into.
- My closet was walk-in with plenty of hanging space and drawers, but most of my clothes ended up on the floor anyway. — 2017
Designed to be possible to walk into (without stepping over a ledge, etc).
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Gaining access through unlocked doors.
- … (locations, that are vulnerable to walk-in robbery), which makes isolation of the value from UCR statistics impossible. — 1976

walk in verb2

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To come without an appointment to a place that would normally require one.
- If you walk in, you're going to have to wait at least an hour.
To step to the rack again with after having stepped away in order not to hit it during execution of the exercise.

forms

walked in · walking in · walks in · walk-ins

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