0 a complete change from one situation or condition to its opposite:
How did the candidate explain the dramatic turnabout in his views on immigration?
1 a complete change from one situation or condition to its opposite:
In an apparent turnabout, he proposes that conversational data can be used to falsify a theory if a forbidden structure occurs.
He clearly relished the turnabout that some leading critics made when looking back on the film's historic import.
This was a turnabout in old commitments with the domestically oriented industrialists (usually, non-diversified single firms) and the labour movement.
Instead, in a remarkable turnabout, he decided to confiscate the company.
That would be quite a turnabout.
There is their changed attitude about public expenditure, a complete turnabout.
By a rather curious turnabout it now seems that it is accused of not prosecuting when it should.
The turnabout in the balance of payments means that we have a stable exchange rate.