( U-turns)
1.
If you make a U-turn when you are driving or cycling, you turn in a half circle in one movement, so that you are then going in the opposite direction.
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2.
If you describe a change in a politician’s policy, plans, or actions as a U-turn , you mean that it is a complete change and that they made the change because they were weak or were wrong.
...a humiliating U-turn by the Prime Minister.
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