revolving door

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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.

a company, institution, or organization with a high turnover of personnel or members.
a legal, medical, or other system or agency that discharges criminals, patients, etc., in the shortest possible time and without adequate attention or consideration.

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Origin of revolving door

First recorded in 1905–10

OTHER WORDS FROM revolving door

re·volv·ing-door, adjective

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How to use revolving door in a sentence

His last few years have been a revolving door of corruption, scandal, resignation, and reinstatement.
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That revolving-door thing is a cancer at the heart of American democracy.
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Rich defendant, revolving door attorneys, last-minute plea deals… cue the brooding theme music and time-lapse photography.
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A revolving door of employees is getting furloughed … and then un-furloughed … and then re-furloughed again.
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She said the rescue center has quickly become a revolving door for people who are hoping to reunite with their pets.
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The damp cold of a March night closed chillingly around the two, as they passed through the revolving door into the street.
A Man's Hearth|Eleanor M. Ingram
An instant later the party was feeding itself into the inappeasable hopper of the revolving door, and so disappeared.
Joan Thursday|Louis Joseph Vance
Fearful that he would address me if I delayed longer I gathered courage anew and entered through a most alarming revolving door.
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Joan, feeling safe in the revolving door, watched while Tim approached the stamp window.
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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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British Dictionary definitions for revolving door

revolving door

noun

a door that rotates about a central vertical axis, esp one with four leaves arranged at right angles to each other, thereby excluding draughts

informal a tendency to change personnel on a frequent basis
(as modifier)a revolving-door band

informal the hiring of former government employees by private companies with which they had dealings when they worked for the government
(as modifier)revolving-door consultancies

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revolving door

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