turnaround

[turn-uh-round]

turn·a·round

[turn-uh-round]
noun
1.
the total time consumed in the round trip of a ship, aircraft, vehicle, etc.
3.
change of allegiance, opinion, mood, policy, etc.
4.
a place or area having sufficient room for a vehicle to turn around.
5.
the time required between receiving and finishing or processing work or materials.
EXPAND
6.
Commerce.
a.
a reversal, as in business sales, especially from loss to profit.
b.
the time between the making of an investment and receiving a return.
7.
Aviation. the elapsed time between an aircraft's arrival at an airfield terminal and its departure.
COLLAPSE

Origin:
1925–30; noun use of verb phrase turn around
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Turnaround is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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turnaround (ˈtɜːnəˌraʊnd)
 
n
1.  a.  the act or process in which a ship, aircraft, etc, unloads passengers and freight at the end of a trip and reloads for the next trip
 b.  the time taken for this
2.  the total time taken by a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle in a round trip
3.  a complete reversal of a situation or set of circumstances

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