Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Large enough to admit entrance.
- adjective Located so as to be entered directly from the street.
- noun A room large enough to admit entrance.
- noun One who arrives for or wishes to get something, such as a service, without having an appointment or reservation.
- noun One who defects to another country after walking into its embassy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a place that people may
enter without a priorappointment - adjective of a thief that gains
access throughunlocked doors - adjective of a defector, etc. that walks into an
embassy etc unannounced - adjective US not a
drive-in - adjective of a room entered without an intervening
passage - noun a walk-in
room orcloset - noun a walk-in
defector etc. - noun parapsychology A person whose original
soul has departed the body and been replaced with another. - noun A
customer who visits arestaurant without areservation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of e.g. closets or refrigerators) extending very far enough back to allow a person to enter
- noun person who walks in without having an appointment
- noun an operative who initiates his own defection (usually to a hostile country) for political asylum
- noun an assured victory (especially in an election)
- noun a small room large enough to admit entrance
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Examples
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The report helpfully cited the definition of walk-in in Spy Book: The Encyclopedia of Espionage, by Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen: “An unheralded defector or a dangle, a ‘walk-in’ is a potential agent or a mole who literally walks into an embassy or intelligence agency without prior contact or recruitment.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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The report helpfully cited the definition of walk-in in Spy Book: The Encyclopedia of Espionage, by Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen: “An unheralded defector or a dangle, a ‘walk-in’ is a potential agent or a mole who literally walks into an embassy or intelligence agency without prior contact or recruitment.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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The report helpfully cited the definition of walk-in in Spy Book: The Encyclopedia of Espionage, by Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen: “An unheralded defector or a dangle, a ‘walk-in’ is a potential agent or a mole who literally walks into an embassy or intelligence agency without prior contact or recruitment.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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The report helpfully cited the definition of walk-in in Spy Book: The Encyclopedia of Espionage, by Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen: “An unheralded defector or a dangle, a ‘walk-in’ is a potential agent or a mole who literally walks into an embassy or intelligence agency without prior contact or recruitment.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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I resisted the temptation to use a phone kiosk and call the walk-in clinic to get the results of my HIV test – out of the fear that someone would report back to them that I was seen on the phone and, ergo, to the cops.
The Woman in the Fifth Douglas Kennedy 2007
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I resisted the temptation to use a phone kiosk and call the walk-in clinic to get the results of my HIV test – out of the fear that someone would report back to them that I was seen on the phone and, ergo, to the cops.
The Woman in the Fifth Douglas Kennedy 2007
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I resisted the temptation to use a phone kiosk and call the walk-in clinic to get the results of my HIV test – out of the fear that someone would report back to them that I was seen on the phone and, ergo, to the cops.
The Woman in the Fifth Douglas Kennedy 2007
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I resisted the temptation to use a phone kiosk and call the walk-in clinic to get the results of my HIV test – out of the fear that someone would report back to them that I was seen on the phone and, ergo, to the cops.
The Woman in the Fifth Douglas Kennedy 2007
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However, when a source, worried about confirming a leak, waves a reporter off a story that is true as Cox did with my early query about a walk-in, that is considered by the inquirer to be a misstep in the symbiosis minuet.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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However, when a source, worried about confirming a leak, waves a reporter off a story that is true as Cox did with my early query about a walk-in, that is considered by the inquirer to be a misstep in the symbiosis minuet.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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