Betekenis van point of no return In het Nederlands

• 0 the stage at which it is no longer possible to stop what you are doing and when its effects cannot now be avoided or prevented:

  • Russia, he said, had reached the point of no return on the road to reform and had to go forward.

  • Scientists fear that global warming has gone beyond the point of no return.

• 1 the stage in a process when it is too late to change what you are doing so that you must continue:

  • Once the contract is signed, we’ve reached the point of no return.

• 2 the stage at which it is no longer possible to stop what you are doing, and when its effects cannot now be avoided or prevented:

  • In business you know that you may be passing the point of no return when you cannot pay your bills as they fall due.