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revolving door

Translate revolving door | into French
Definition of revolving door

noun

  • an entrance to a large building in which four partitions turn about a central axis.
  • used to refer to a situation in which the same events recur in a continuous cycle:many patients are trapped in a revolving door of admission, discharge, and readmission
  • [usually as modifier] an organization that people tend to enter and leave very quickly:the newsroom became a revolving-door workplace

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Definition of revolving door in the US English dictionary