Meaning of walk-in | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A facility or room which may be walked into:
2. A relatively small room (such as a closet or pantry) or refrigerator or freezer that is spacious enough to walk into.
3. A relatively larger room or (especially) an apartment that is entered directly, not via an intervening passage or lobby.
4. A facility or an event that principally handles customers who do not have an appointment.
5. A facility accessed on foot rather than by car, usually contrasted to drive-in.
6. Someone who walks in (to a place, etc):
7. A customer, job applicant or similar who visits a restaurant, medical facility, car dealership, etc. without a reservation, appointment, or referral.
8. A defector (or similar) who walks into an embassy (etc) unannounced.
9. A demonstration or protest in which the participants assemble outside a facility, gain media exposure, and enter the facility in unison.
10. A person whose original soul has departed the body and been replaced with another.

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Examples

“a walk-in bathroom, a walk-in apartment, lived in a walk-in on Lime Street”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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"”

“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.”

“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.”

“An astute manager will have a table or two set aside for important regular customers or demanding walk-ins.”

“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,”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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