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TURN-AROUND

Specialty Definition: TURN-AROUND

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Building & Civil Engineering

A cleared area on a road or track where vehicles can be turned round. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: TURN-AROUND

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Books

  • Turn-Around Churches: How to Overcome Barriers to Growth and Bring New Life to an Established Church (reference)

  • The great Nixon turn-around; America's new foreign policy in the post-liberal era (how a Cold Warrior climbed clean out of his skin); essays and articles with an introductory statement (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: TURN-AROUND

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Business

However, the 1997 Asian financial crisis manifested itself in drastic trade imbalances in 1998. Until 1997, Korea was the fifth largest export market, dropping to ninth largest in 1998. In 1998, the U.S. Trade deficit with Korea was $7.4 billion, a dramatic turn-around of $9.3 billion from the $1.9 billion trade surplus the United States had with Korea in 1997. Sharp declines in corporate investment, domestic consumption, and imports in 1998 can be attributed to the fall in the won's value, the financial crisis, and the recession. (references)

Economic History

Brazil

Costs are high and turn-around time is long. (references)

Ukraine

The number of documents required for applications was reduced and a shorter turn-around time was established. (references)

Kazakhstan

The increased economic growth also led to a turn-around in government finances, with the budget moving from a cash deficit of 3.7% of GDP in 1999 to 0.1% surplus in 2000. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: TURN-AROUND

"TURN-AROUND" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TURN-AROUND" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1785,106

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TURN-AROUND

Language Translations for "TURN-AROUND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

vendeplads (stripe, turning about, turning bay). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

keerplaats (turning bay), bocht (bend, curve, golf, gulf, refuse, rubbish, turn, waste). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kääntymispaikka (turning bay), kääntöpaikka (turning bay). (various references)

   

French

  

tournière (turn space, turning bay), boucle (turning bay). (various references)

   

German

  

Wendeschleife (loop, turning bay), Umdrehungsplatz (turning bay). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

χρόνος επαναφοράς (turnaround time, turn-around time). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

megfordulási terület (turnaround, turn-around area), földi tartózkodási idõ (turn-around time). (various references)

   

Italian

  

rotonda per l'inversione di marcia (turning bay). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

逆転 (change, coming from behind, reversal). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ぎゃくて" (change, coming from behind, reversal). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

urn-aroundtay

   

Portuguese

  

rotunda (rotunda). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

rotonda (rotunda, roundabout). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vändplats (turning bay), vändplan (turning bay). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TURN-AROUND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: turnaround.

Words within the letters "a-d-n-n-o-r-r-t-u-u"

-1 letter: runaround.

-2 letters: runround.

-3 letters: rotunda, unround.

-4 letters: adnoun, ardour, around, natron, nonart, outran, outrun, rotund, runout, tundra, turnon, untorn, untrod.

-5 letters: adorn, ardor, daunt, donna, donut, doura, durra, radon, round, tardo, trona.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-n-n-o-r-r-t-u-u"
 

+1 letter: turnarounds.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Usage: Commercial
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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