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Volte-face

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Noun

1. about-face, policy change, reversal, volte-face

a major change in attitude or principle or point of view

Example Sentences:
'an about-face on foreign policy'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Volte-face

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nounWord forms: plural volte-face
1. 
a reversal, as in opinion or policy
2. 
a change of position so as to look, lie, etc, in the opposite direction

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Volte-face

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noun
1. 
a turn so as to face the opposite way; about-face
2. 
a complete reversal of opinion, attitude, etc.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Volte-face

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n.
A reversal, as in policy; an about-face.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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