turnabout

a changing from one policy or point of view to virtually its exact opposite <employees regarded the latest turnabout as a sure sign that management hadn't a clue as to what it was doing> Synonyms about-turn [British], flip-flop, reversal, about-face, turnaround, U-turn, volte-faceRelated Words bait and switch, switcheroo; denial, disaffirmance, disavowal, disownment, recantation, renunciation, repudiation, retraction; reconsideration, retreat, second thought; hesitation, indecision, irresolution, shilly-shallying, vacillation, wavering, wobbling (also wabbling)