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Turn around
noun, verb, slang
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Noun
- 1 Alternative spelling of turnaround. alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
- 2 turning in an opposite direction or position wordnet
Verb
- 1 To physically rotate (usually around a vertical axis) for a half turn (180 degrees), a whole turn (360 degrees), or an indefinite amount. ergative
"At the end of the road, we turned around and walked back to the hotel."
- 2 improve significantly; go from bad to good wordnet
- 3 To change drastically in a fundamental way, often for the better; to change to the opposite (opinion or position). figuratively, transitive
"She turned her position around and now she is in favor of the merger."
- 4 improve dramatically wordnet
- 5 To reverse an expected outcome (of a game, etc.), usually from a losing outcome to a winning one; to return (a business, department, etc.) to effectiveness, profitability, etc. transitive
"The new management team has really turned the company around 180 degrees, and they expect a good profit next year."
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- 6 turn abruptly and face the other way, either physically or metaphorically wordnet
- 7 To convert (an agent) to work for one's own side. transitive
"Some months ago, the Captain had come to the FBI with a story that he had been contacted by Soviet agents, and the FBI had “turned him around” and used him to plant false and specially made up classified material of no importance on the Soviets."
- 8 To suddenly change or reverse one's opinion, point of view, stated position, behaviour, etc. colloquial, idiomatic, intransitive
"You can't just turn around and say that it was all my fault."
- 9 To consider from a different viewpoint. idiomatic, transitive
"Let's turn that around and look at it from another angle."
- 10 (often with a unit of time) To produce; to output; to generate. colloquial, idiomatic, transitive
"We can turn around 500 units by next week."
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