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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