u-turn

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A turn in a vehicle carried out by driving in a semicircle in order to travel in the opposite direction.

   “What's disappointing about all this doom and gloom is that the franchise has made the kind of whiplashing U-turn you might see in its car-chase sequences.”

2. isim A reversal of policy or opinion.

   “The government have done a U-turn and are now supporting greater European integration instead of opposing it.”

3. fiil To turn a vehicle in a semicircle so as to face the opposite direction (∩)).
4. fiil To shift from one opinion or decision to its opposite.

   “She made the case for cutting taxes as “the right thing to do morally and economically”, despite having just U-turned over her decision to abolish the 45p top rate of income tax.”

5. isim Alternative letter-case form of U-turn.

   “"The PM’s private reassurances are worthless given her track record of u-turns and her clear desperation to cling to power."”