walk outとは

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動詞

walk out (三人称単数 現在形 walks out, 現在分詞 walking out, 過去形および過去分詞形 walked out)

1. (intransitive) To stage a walkout or strike.

   Synonyms: strike, go on strike, walk off the job

   Postal workers are set to walk out tomorrow if contract negotiations fail.

   • 2020 December 2, Philip Haigh, “A winter of discontent caused by threat of union action”, in Rail, page 62:

     While the RMT and ScotRail bash heads over the pay freeze, RMT guards based at Glasgow Central are already walking out, with strikes planned [...] in a dispute over "abuse of disciplinary procedures".

2. (intransitive) To leave suddenly, especially as a form of protest.
3. (intransitive, dated) To go out with; to be romantically involved.

   Synonyms: date, go out, see

   The maidservant has been walking out with the butcher's man.

   • 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, New York: Viking, 1958, Chapter 28, p. 575,^[1]

     “Well, her an’ your boy Al, they’re a-walkin’ out ever’ night. An’ Aggie’s a good healthy girl that oughta have a husban’, else she might git in trouble. [...]”

   • 2005, Sebastian Barry, A Long Long Way, New York: Viking, Part 3, Chapter 19, p. 244,^[2]

     And Maud, surely seventeen by now. Did she have a boy to walk out with?

4. (intransitive, obsolete) To go for a walk outdoors; to go out.
   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, p. 160,^[3]

     [The Umbrella] kept off the Sun so effectually, that I could walk out in the hottest of the Weather with greater Advantage than I could before in the coolest, and when I had no need of it, cou’d close it and carry it under my Arm.

   • 1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 118, 4 May, 1751, Volume 4, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, p. 161,^[4]

     The Turks are said to hear with wonder a proposal to walk out, only that they may walk back; and enquire, why any man should labour for nothing:

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, London: T. Egerton, Volume 3, Chapter 16, p. 270,^[5]

     The gentlemen arrived early; and, before Mrs. Bennet had time to tell him of their having seen his aunt [...], Bingley, who wanted to be alone with Jane, proposed their all walking out. It was agreed to.

   • 1849, Charlotte Brontë, Shirley, London: Smith, Elder, Volume 2, Chapter 1, pp. 3-4,^[6]

     “Do you walk out this morning, my dear?”

     “Yes, I shall go to the rectory, and seek and find Caroline Helstone, and make her take some exercise. She shall have a breezy walk over Nunnely Common.”

   • 1871, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume 1, Book 1, Chapter 5, p. 76,^[7]

     The day was damp, and they were not going to walk out, so they both went up to their sitting-room;

   • 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 130:

     [A]long the edge of Regent's Park there were as many silent couples "walking out" together under the scattered gas-lamps as ever there had been.

語源

walk +‎ out