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walk·up
alsowalk-up (wôk′ŭp′)n.
1. An apartment house or office building with no elevator.
2. An apartment or office in a building with no elevator.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
walk-up
n
(Building)informal
a.a block of flats having no lift
b.(as modifier):a walk-up block.
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
walk′-up`
n.
1. an apartment above the ground floor in a building with no elevator.
2. a building, esp. an apartment house, that has no elevator.
adj. 3. located above the ground floor in a building that has no elevator.
4. (of a building) having no elevator.
5. accessible to pedestrians from the outside of a building: a walk-up teller's window.
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| Noun | 1. |  walk-up - an apartment in a building without an elevatorwalk-up - an apartment building without an elevator |
| 2. |  walk-up - an apartment building without an elevatorapartment building,apartment house - a building that is divided into apartments walk-up,walk-up apartment - an apartment in a building without an elevator | |
| Adj. | 1. | walk-up - a building with no elevator; "a walk-up apartment" low-rise - used of buildings of one or only a few stories and usually no elevator; low; "looking out over the roofs of low-rise apartment buildings" |
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walk-up
[ˈwɔːkʌp]N (US) (=building) →edificiom sinascensor; (=flat) →pisomor (LAm) departamentom en un edificio sin ascensorCollins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
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