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U-turning

U-turning is the present participle and gerund of U-turn.

Meaning of U-turn

Verb

U-turn (third-person singular simple present U-turns, present participle U-turning, simple past and past participle U-turned)

  1. To turn a vehicle in a semicircle so as to face the opposite direction (∩)).
  2. (intransitive) 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 October 5, Rowena Mason, “Liz Truss promises ‘growth, growth and growth’ in protest-hit speech”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 02 Apr 2023

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Questions about U-turning

What is U-turning the present participle and gerund of?
U-turning is the present participle and gerund of U-turn.

Words near U-turning in the dictionary

  1. U-tubes
  2. u-turn
  3. U-turned
  4. U-turner
  5. U-turners
  6. U-turning
  7. u-turns
  8. U-valley
  9. U-valleys
  10. U-value
  11. U-values

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Adapted from Wiktionary: U-turning (page history and authors); U-turn (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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