Meaning & use
walk in promotion
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Meanings
nouncountablebusiness
A job or event that people can attend or apply for without an appointment or invitation.
Grammar: Countable phrase, usually written walk-in promotion; plural: walk-in promotions.
Patterns
- a walk-in promotion for something
- hold a walk-in promotion
- apply at a walk-in promotion
The hotel held a walk-in promotion to recruit new kitchen staff.
A walk-in promotion lets candidates meet the manager without booking ahead.
She got her first job through a walk-in promotion at the store.
nouncountablebusiness
A sales offer that customers can take up simply by coming into the store.
Grammar: Countable phrase used mainly in retail and marketing; plural: walk-in promotions.
Patterns
- offer a walk-in promotion
- a walk-in promotion on something
The shop is running a walk-in promotion on winter coats this week.
Customers heard about the walk-in promotion by text message.
Word forms
| plural | walk-in promotions |
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Common combinations
- hold a walk-in promotion
- The company held a walk-in promotion at three city offices.
- walk-in promotion for staff
- There is a walk-in promotion for staff at the new factory.
- run a walk-in promotion
- The store is running a walk-in promotion all weekend.
- attend a walk-in promotion
- More than fifty people attended the walk-in promotion.
Synonyms and how they differ
- open recruitment day
- Similar meaning, but it stresses the event rather than the fact that no appointment is needed.
- walk-in interview
- Narrower: it refers only to the interview itself, not the whole hiring event.
- open call
- Used especially in the arts for auditions that anyone may attend without an agent.
Word family
Commonly confused: walk in promotion or walk-in promotion?
walk in promotion vs walk-in promotion
Do not confuse the job sense with the sales sense: one hires people, the other attracts shoppers. The hyphen matters; without it, 'walk in promotion' looks like a sentence about walking.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'walk-in promotion' in the job sense?
Choose one answer.
In the job sense, a walk-in promotion is an event where people can apply without an appointment, as in the first option. The second describes a normal promotion at work, the third confuses it with a physical walkway, and the fourth is not a real phrase.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “walk in promotion”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.