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ˈswitch-over [f. vbl. phr. to switch over: see switch v. 8 c.] A switch or change from one state or course to another; a change-over.
1928Daily Express 12 Nov. 10/2 The opening left by America's switch-over to the ‘talkies’ can be brilliantly exploited. 1937Essays & Stud. XXII. 148 The cross⁓currents, switch-overs, throw-backs, and quasi-automatic tags of The Waste Land. 1941‘R. West’ Black Lamb & Grey Falcon I. 159 He believes that any moment the whole process of life may make a slight switch-over and that every thing will be agreeable for ever. 1952S. Kauffmann Philanderer (1953) iv. 66 So six months after we start, we've got the name of the book banged into the public's head, and maybe..we've held on to a lot of the confession readers in the switch-over. 1962Rep. Comm. Broadc. 1960 210 in Parl. Papers 1961–2 (Cmnd. 1753) IX. 259 The method of changing the line standard... It considered the possibility of ‘a simultaneous change-over throughout the country’—that is, a ‘switchover’. 1979Financial Rev. (Sydney) 6 July 46/4 Each of the..pulse generators across Australia required manual switchover in the event of failure. |