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turnaround orig. and chiefly U.S.|ˈtɜːnəraʊnd|
Also turn-around.
[f. the verbal phr. turn around (turn v. 67).]
1. = turn-round 1.
1936Sun (Baltimore) 20 Aug. 11/6 The dirigible Hindenburg landed..at the Naval Air Station tonight for what was expected to be the quickest turn-around in transatlantic airship service. 1946Ibid. 9 Apr. 17/6 Another feature of the day's market was the turn-around of two loads of 100-pound Iowa wooled lambs which brought $18.55. 1952Ibid. 9 Oct. 5/4 At present the two queens have a 48-hour turnaround at Southampton. 1971D. Bagley Freedom Trap ix. 202 The skipper was returning in the tender. It seemed as though they intended a faster turnaround than Gibralter. 1974T. P. Whitney tr. Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago I. ii. i. 497 So that the prisoner shouldn't attempt to escape during the moment he was in the toilet, and also for a faster turn⁓around, the door to the toilet was not closed. 1977Sci. Amer. Jan. 127/1 Ships designed to carry a unitized cargo, for ease of transshipment, quick turnaround, low damage and low longshore labor costs.
2. = turn-round 2.
1941Sun (Baltimore) 30 Dec. 15/1 Many [railroad bonds] had been depressed to the lowest level since 1938 prior to the turn-around late last week. 1961N.Y. World-Telegram 15 Mar. 31/2 Yet this would mean a turn-around in the trend of residential construction. 1972M. Williams Inside Number 10 iv. 82 He was found an office and in the general turnaround the Private Secretary..was shifted from the study..to a large room on the first floor. 1975N.Y. Times 19 May 18/4 The migration to the Arkansas countryside is part of a national turnaround in population. 1984Times 13 Jan. 13/1 Associated Newspapers..yesterday disclosed a {pstlg} 5m turnaround from loss to profit.
3. A space for vehicles to turn round in, often at the end of a drive or cul-de-sac.
1954C. Armstrong Better to eat You vi. 63 He..ran across the turn-around and the parking apron. 1969‘F. Richards’ Risky Way to Kill (1970) vi. 68 She swung the Volks in the graveled turnaround, so that it headed back the way it had come. 1975New Yorker 31 Mar. 29/3 Then they..got into the truck, circled the turnaround, and drove straight off. 1984Ibid. 7 May 57/3, I turned up my driveway and parked in the turnaround.
4. The action or fact of turning round; a point in a team-game at which the teams change ends to play in the opposite directions.
1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. vii. 116, I can do the splits, I can do the turn-arounds, I can do the kicks. 1960T. McLean Kings of Rugby 212 Then, at the turnaround, when the Lions now had the northerly wind at their backs, the change which came over the game was remarkable. 1962A. Shepard in Into Orbit 108, I could feel the capsule begin its slow, lazy turnaround to get into position for the rest of the flight.
5. attrib.
1944Sun (Baltimore) 15 Aug. 12/5 The ‘Big Inch’ line..has done the work of 23,000 tank cars operating on an 18-day turn-around schedule. 1946Ibid. 27 Dec. 6/1 Ease of maintenance and servicing will cut costs and turn-around time. 1950Ibid. 14 Aug. 10/6 The harbor to be built at Lake Washington will consist of a turn⁓around area 1,000 feet square. 1959Wall St. Jrnl. 29 July 6/3 He described the current period as a ‘turn⁓around year’ leading to higher sales and earnings next year. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 17 July 7/3 There ought to be some turnaround time to get into a system different than the one that has existed for nearly 40 years. |