U-turn noun 2verb 2forms 4 noun2 •A turn in a vehicle carried out by driving in a semicircle in order to travel in the opposite direction.What's disappointing about all this doom and gloom is that the franchise has made the kind of whiplashing U-turn you might see in its car-chase sequences. — 2025 •(figurative) A reversal of policy or opinion.The government have done a U-turn and are now supporting greater European integration instead of opposing it. verb2 •To turn a vehicle in a semicircle so as to face the opposite direction (∩). •To shift from one opinion or decision to its opposite.She made the case for cutting taxes as “the right thing to do morally and economically”, despite having just U-turned over her decision to abolish the 45p top rate of income tax. — 2022 formsU-turned · U-turning · U-turns · u-turns
