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VOLTE-FACE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A major change in attitude or principle or point of view
Example:
an about-face on foreign policy
Synonyms:
about-face; policy change; reversal; volte-face
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("volte-face" is a kind of...):
change (the action of changing something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "volte-face"):
undoing (an act that makes a previous act of no effect (as if not done))
