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turnabout
turnabout
noun
Definition of 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>
Related 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)
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