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2 PHRASAL VERB If you turn something around , or if it turns around , it is moved so that it faces the opposite direction. □ [V n P ] Bud turned the truck around, and started back for Dalton Pond. □ [V P n] He had reached over to turn round a bottle of champagne so that the label didn't show. □ [V P ] There was enough room for a wheelchair to get in but not to turn round.

3 PHRASAL VERB If something such as a business or economy turns around , or if someone turns it around , it becomes successful, after being unsuccessful for a period of time. [BUSINESS ] □ [V n P ] Turning the company around won't be easy. □ [V P n] In his long career at BP, Horton turned around two entire divisions. □ [V P ] If the economy turned round the government's authority would quickly increase.

4 PHRASAL VERB If you turn around a question, sentence, or idea, you change the way in which it is expressed, in order to consider it differently. □ [V n P ] What's the point of history? Let's turn the question around: imagine a world with the history written out. □ [V P n] It's an example of how you can turn around the sentence and create a whole new meaning.

5 → see also turnaround

6 PHRASE If you say that someone turns around and says something, you are indicating that they say it unexpectedly or angrily, especially in order to criticize another person or to defend themselves. [INFORMAL ] □  I feel that if I say how tired I get, David will turn around and say, 'I told you so'.

▸  turn away

1 PHRASAL VERB If you turn someone away , you do not allow them to enter your country, home, or other place. □ [V n P ] Turning refugees away would be an inhumane action. □ [V P n] Hard times are forcing community colleges to turn away students.

2 PHRASAL VERB To turn away from something such as a method or an idea means to stop using it or to become different from it. □ [V P + from ] Japanese corporations have been turning away from production into finance.

▸  turn back

1 PHRASAL VERB If you turn back or if someone turns you back when you are going somewhere, you change direction and go towards where you started from. □ [V P prep/adv] She turned back towards the crossroads. □ [V P ] They were very nearly forced to turn back. □ [V P n] Police attempted to turn back protesters marching towards parliament. [Also V n P ]

2 PHRASAL VERB If you cannot turn back , you cannot change your plans and decide not to do something, because the action you have already taken makes it impossible. □ [V P ] The administration has now endorsed the bill and can't turn back.

▸  turn down

1 PHRASAL VERB If you turn down a person or their request or offer, you refuse their request or offer. □ [V n P ] Before this I'd have smiled and turned her down. □ [V P n] Would you turn down $7,000,000 to appear nude in a magazine?

2 PHRASAL VERB When you turn down a radio, heater, or other piece of equipment, you reduce the amount of sound or heat being produced, by adjusting the controls. □ [V n P ] He kept turning the central heating down. □ [V P n] She could not bear the relentless music and turned down the volume.

▸  turn in

1 PHRASAL VERB When you turn in , you go to bed. [INFORMAL ] □ [V P ] Would you like some tea before you turn in?