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Full-text Search for "u-turn"
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u-turn definitions
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
n
1: complete reversal of direction of travel
Merriam Webster's
noun Date: 19301. a turn resembling the letter U;especially a 180-degree turn made by a vehicle in a road2. something (as a reversal of policy) resembling a U-turn
Oxford Reference Dictionary
n. 1 the turning of a vehicle in a U-shaped course so as to face in the opposite direction. 2 a reversal of policy.
Collin's Cobuild Dictionary
(U-turns) 1. If you make a U-turn when you are driving or cycling, you turn in a half circle in one movement, so that you are then going in the opposite direction. N-COUNT 2. If you describe a change in a politician's policy, plans, or actions as a U-turn, you mean that it is a complete change and that they made the change because they were weak or were wrong. ...a humiliating U-turn by the Prime Minister. N-COUNT [disapproval]
