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turnaround
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turnaround
1. 
a. the act or process in which a ship, aircraft, etc., unloads passengers and freight at the end of a trip and reloads for the next trip
b. the time taken for this
2. the total time taken by a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle in a round trip
turnaround [′tərn·ə‚rau̇nd]
(chemical engineering)
In petroleum refining, the shutdown of a unit after a normal run for maintenance and repair work, then putting the unit back into operation.
(engineering)
The length of time between arriving at a point and departing from that point; it is used in this sense for the turnaround of vehicles, ships in ports, and aircraft.
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Former BMW executive Dr Wolfgang Reitzle took over Jaguar in March, 1999, and opened the Halewood Jaguar plant last May, praising its Merseyside workforce for achieving one of the greatest turnrounds in British industrial history.
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