turn round

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turn round
verbo transitivo con partícula
1dar la vuelta a (car, table); enderezar (economy, situation, company)
verbo intransitivo
2darse la vuelta (person)

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turn round
verb:intransitive:plus_adverb
1 (back to front) volverse; dar la espalda
turn round and look at me! He turned round and came back
as soon as I turned round they were quarrelling again en cuanto les volví la espalda se pusieron otra vez a reñir; the government has turned right round el gobierno ha cambiado completamente de rumbo; he turned round and said ... (informal) fue y me dijo me soltó ...;or (informal)
`We were just about to go on stage," he told me, `and Ray turned round and said to me ..." A couple of years ago I met this woman in her forties who told me that she was doing a law degree. I told her that was rather interesting and she turned round and said `I don't want to be interesting, I want to be sexy"
2 (rotate) girar; dar vueltas
I could hardly turn round apenas podía volverme; to turn round and round dar vueltas y más vueltas
3 (improve) [+business, economy] recuperarse
If the economy turned round, the Prime Minister's authority would quickly increase
verb:transitive:plus_adverb
1 [+person, object] dar la vuelta a; voltear; (LAm)
I turned him round and sent him back to the classroom She turned her hat round so that the ribbons were hanging over her eyes
 [+vehicle, ship etc] dar la vuelta a; girar
2 (Comm)
to turn an order round tramitar un pedido
With the new system we can now turn most orders round within a single day
3 (make successful) [+business, economy] sacar a flote; hacer despegar; (make profitable) [+company, school] rentabilizar; sanear (las finanzas de); [+the economy] sanear
It's simply ridiculous to think you could turn the economy round in one week The engineering group is at last fighting to turn round its business
4 (rework) [+sentence, idea] modificar; alterar
If you turned this round a bit it would be very funny Of course you could always turn it round and make HIM the victim

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