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turnaround definition

☆ turn·around (tʉrn′ə ro̵und′)

noun

  1. turnabout
  2. a wide area, as in a driveway, to allow for turning a vehicle around
  3. the time needed to unload, refuel, service, and reload an aircraft
  4. the time needed to complete a job, perform a service, etc., as for a customer
  5. Film a production stage in which the original producer or studio has rejected a previously purchased project, script, etc. but it has not yet been acquired by another producer or studio: usually in the phrase in (or into) turnaround

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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