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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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name
A small town in the City of Greater Geraldton, Western Australia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A case of a person walking away (e.g. an inmate from a facility, a cult member from a community); a person who walks away.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
An easy victory; a very unequal contest (also used attributively).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
Synonyms: walkover
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noun
A business termination in which the entrepreneur winds up the business with its obligations met.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A property that has been abandoned when the mortgager failed to make their payments, while the mortgagee has abandoned its foreclosure action to avoid the costs associated with ownership.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, real-estate
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noun
In a negotiation, the terms representing the least a party is willing to accept (also used attributively).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: bottom line
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noun
A vehicle lease under which the lessee is not responsible for the value of the vehicle at the end of the lease period.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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Synonyms: closed-end lease
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noun
Intended to be consumed while walking.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, attributive
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noun
A kind of sweet pastry containing cream cheese.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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noun
A meal break during which food is not provided, and workers are expected to leave the location to eat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: broadcasting, film, media, television
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noun
The theft of a suitcase at a hotel through distraction, deception, etc.; a person who engages in this type of theft.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
An elevated enclosed passage providing access fore and aft from the bridge of a merchant vessel; any similarly elevated walkway.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: literature, media, nautical, publishing, science-fiction, transport
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Synonyms: catwalk
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noun
A type of sea shanty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, obsolete
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Synonyms: hand-over-hand, stamp-and-go
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noun
A person who forgets to take their change after purchasing a ticket at the circus; the money abandoned in this way.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, obsolete
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noun
an easy victory
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: runaway, blowout, romp, laugher, shoo-in
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Broader terms: victory, triumph
History
A corruption of an Aborigine term, wagga wah.
Deverbal from walk away.
