turn around ( also turn round British English ) phrasal verb ( see also ↑ turn )
1 . if a business, department etc that is not successful turns around, or if someone turns it around, it starts to be successful:
The company turned around from losses of £1.4 million last year to profits of £26,800.
turn something ↔ around
At Rockwell International he had turned around a badly performing division.
⇨ ↑ turnaround
2 . if a situation, game etc turns around, or if someone turns it around, it changes and starts to develop in the way you want:
After I met him, my whole life turned around.
turn something ↔ around
Fender’s batting could turn matches around in half an hour.
3 . turn around and say/do etc something spoken to say or do something that is unexpected or that seems unfair or unreasonable:
You can’t just turn around and say that it was all my fault.
4 . turn something ↔ around to consider an idea, question etc in a different way, or change the words of something so that it has a different meaning:
Let’s turn the whole idea around and look at it from another angle.
5 . turn something ↔ around to complete the process of making a product or providing a service:
We can turn around 500 units by next week.
6 . every time somebody turns around spoken very often or all the time:
Every time I turn around he seems to be checking up on me.