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change round

British  

verb

  1. to place in or adopt a different or opposite position

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. the act of changing to a different position

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“I keep my clothes in the car. My heels. I put on some lipstick, teach the lesson. Then it’s back in the car, quick change round the corner and I’m off.”

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2024

Thus we shall keep up our hearts, though things do change round us, sometimes mournfully enough. 

From Discipline and Other Sermons by Charles Kingsley

You'll find a big change round Rabbit Creek when you blow in there.

From The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike by W. H. P. (William Henry Pope) Jarvis

I should hate to have to manage small, and change round, in boarding.

From The Other Girls by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

—O Day, change round about our bliss, Come, restful night, when day is done!

From Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by William Morris

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