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It's fair play, they say
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turnabout
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Turnabout is a novel by Margaret Peterson Haddix , set in the future. It was first published in 2002 by the Aladdin division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. The novel switches between 2001 and 2081 by chapter.
Wiktionary
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alt. 1 The act of turning about so as to face in the opposite direction 2 A reversal of a decision or opinion etc; a change one's mind or flip-flop n. 1 The act of turning about so as to face in the opposite direction 2 A reversal of a decision or opinion ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a surprising turnabout in church policy EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ For Lyndon Johnson, the turnabout was even more abrupt and total. ▪ How and why did this extraordinary and extraordinarily rapid turnabout in attitudes take ...
Usage examples of turnabout.
Turnabout danced around Slappy twice and then put an arm on his shoulder.
And now, in a turnabout that made Doodlebug quietly ashamed, he was forced to ask his old friend to return the favor.
But turnabout was fair play, so she lingered over each bite while she stared at his mouth, or in the direction of his lap.
Daughters of the heavens, be lucks in turnabouts to the wandering sons of red loam!
This was the big turnabout , if Speer would only start mass-producing the thing at once.
The turnabout became apparent in the way they looked at him, in their determination to be understanding, nonpossessive, compliant, and considerate.
At the same moment, right on schedule… a loud report… the posigrade rockets fired, throwing the capsule free of the rocket shaft… the capsule began its automatic turnabout, and all the proper green lights went on in front of him, and he knew he was "through the gate," as they said.
However, as he knows us, we also know him, know of his frequently overcautious nature, of his occasional indecisiveness, of his penchant for turnabouts and betrayals, of his vanity and arrogance.
Such turnabouts are common enough, especially with people in middle age, but I would never have expected it of Parlabane.
It was merely another of the turnabouts of Kajuralia, but in it was perhaps more.