turn around (something)



turn around (something)

To reverse the direction or course of something; to reverse the way something is facing or oriented. I swear, if you kids don't stop fighting back there, I am going to turn around this car and take us straight back home! The company is hiring a new financial consultant to turn around the sales trends of the last two years.
See also: around, turn

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Felicefe-LEE-cheItalian
Sayyida-Arabic
Emiliae-MEEL-yah (Italian, Spanish, Polish), E-mee-lee-ah (Finnish), e-MEE-lee-ah (Swedish)Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Finnish, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, English
&Aelig;Lfstan-Anglo-Saxon
Chestislav-Medieval Slavic
Ioane-Georgian (Archaic)