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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 Kingsley, Charles

But he's not the man to change round easily, or to take up with any one else.

From Marcella by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

The Basques are a picturesque and lovable people, and they have kept their characteristics and customs bright and shining through many centuries of change round about them.

From The Automobilist Abroad by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

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 Jarvis, W. H. P. (William Henry Pope)

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