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revolving door

noun

an entrance door for excluding drafts from the interior of a building, usually consisting of four rigid leaves set in the form of a cross and rotating about a central, vertical pivot in the doorway.
Informal.
1. a company, institution, or organization with a high turnover of personnel or members.
2. a legal, medical, or other system or agency that discharges criminals, patients, etc., in the shortest possible time and without adequate attention or consideration.

revolving door

a door that rotates about a central vertical axis, esp one with four leaves arranged at right angles to each other, thereby excluding draughts
1. a tendency to change personnel on a frequent basis
2. ( as modifier )
  a revolving-door band
1. the hiring of former government employees by private companies with which they had dealings when they worked for the government
2. ( as modifier )
  revolving-door consultancies

First recorded in 1905–10

His last few years have been a revolving door of corruption, scandal, resignation, and reinstatement.

That revolving-door thing is a cancer at the heart of American democracy.

Rich defendant, revolving door attorneys, last-minute plea deals… cue the brooding theme music and time-lapse photography.

A revolving door of employees is getting furloughed … and then un-furloughed … and then re-furloughed again.

She said the rescue center has quickly become a revolving door for people who are hoping to reunite with their pets.

The damp cold of a March night closed chillingly around the two, as they passed through the revolving door into the street.

An instant later the party was feeding itself into the inappeasable hopper of the revolving door, and so disappeared.

Fearful that he would address me if I delayed longer I gathered courage anew and entered through a most alarming revolving door.

Joan, feeling safe in the revolving door, watched while Tim approached the stamp window.

As far as he knew, no one but Helen, Doctor Bimble and himself was aware of the existence of the revolving door, and the tunnel.

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