U-turn

nom

1. 1

   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. 2

   figuréA reversal of policy or opinion.

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

   Rishi Sunak, the UK prime minister, announced a major U-turn on the government’s climate commitments last month, pushing back the deadline for selling new petrol and diesel cars and the phasing out of gas boilers.

verbe

1. 1

   To turn a vehicle in a semicircle so as to face the opposite direction (∩)).

2. 2

   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.

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U-turns

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U-turned

participe passé

U-turned

participe présent

U-turning

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U-turns