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Revolving door
noun
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Noun
- 1 A door that rotates around a central pivot.
- 2 a door consisting of four orthogonal partitions that rotate about a central pivot; a door designed to equalize the air pressure in tall buildings wordnet
- 3 A system or institution that people exit and immediately reenter. figuratively
"Indeed, we happily condemn damaged children – at enormous expense – to hellholes like Feltham, where they are more likely to be assaulted or killed than to find an escape from the revolving doors of courts, prisons and addiction."
- 4 an organization or institution with a high rate of turnover of personnel or membership wordnet
- 5 A movement of personnel between roles as legislators and regulators, on the one hand, and members of the industries affected by the legislation and regulation, on the other.
"We've had 14 Secretaries of State through the revolving door in the first 23 years of this century. And the civil servants rotate through the departments with similar speed."
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- 6 Synonym of recidivism.
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