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walk·up

also walk-up (wôk′ŭp′)

1. An apartment house or office building with no elevator.

2. An apartment or office in a building with no elevator.

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walk-up

(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`

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 elevator walk-up apartment apartment, flat - a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house walk-up - an apartment building without an elevator
	2.	walk-up - an apartment building without an elevator apartment 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"

Translations

walk-up

[ˈwɔːkʌp] N (US) (= building) → edificio m sin ascensor; (= flat) → piso m or (LAm) departamento m en un edificio sin ascensor

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

walk-up

[ˈwɔːkˌʌp] n (Am) → casa senza ascensore

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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