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about-turn

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about-turn British
noun
1 he saluted, did an about-turn, and marched out of the tent:
about-face, volte-face, turnaround, U-turn, rowback;
informal U-ey, one-eighty.
2 the government was forced to make an embarrassing about-turn over the bill:
reversal, retraction, backtracking, swing, shift, swerve, U-turn, volte-face, turnaround;
change of heart, change of mind, sea change.
verb
suddenly he about-turned and saluted again:
about-face, turn around, do a U-turn, reverse, row back.