revolving door
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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- re·volv·ing-door, adjective
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How to use revolving door in a sentence
The fact that the principal position has become a revolving door, preventing any one leader from gaining traction and exerting a consistent presence at the school.
An Annotated History of the Community Square-Off Over Lincoln High | Will Huntsberry and Sara Libby | June 7, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoHiring is important, she said, but those new hires may head back through the revolving door if they find themselves in a culture that doesn’t support them.
Programmatic Marketing Summit Recap: Marketers brace for more unknowns amid industry-wide identity shifts | Sara Jerde | June 3, 2021 | DigidayReid’s sense of pacing is sublime as she introduces and dispenses with a revolving door of characters to approximate the chaos of a rager where sloshed A-listers couple up in the closets and waiters pass trays of cocaine.
Taylor Jenkins Reid’s ‘Malibu Rising’ is a fiery mix of celebrity culture and family drama | Stephanie Merry | May 31, 2021 | Washington PostTheir efforts have opened a revolving door between public and private interests.
Morning Report: A Revolving Door for Cops, Drone Companies | Voice of San Diego | April 5, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoThe revolving door of leadership at Lincoln is nothing new to southeastern San Diego community members.
Instability Still Haunting Leadership Team at Lincoln High | Will Huntsberry | March 31, 2021 | Voice of San Diego
His last few years have been a revolving door of corruption, scandal, resignation, and reinstatement.
The U.N.’s Next President Is a Gay-Hating Friend of Uganda’s Corrupt Dictator | Jay Michaelson | June 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThat revolving-door thing is a cancer at the heart of American democracy.
John Oliver on ‘Last Week Tonight,’ Turning Down CBS, and ‘Nauseating’ American Politics | Marlow Stern | May 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTRich 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 Twister Stole My Pet: How Cats, Dogs, and a Donkey Survived Oklahoma | Christine Pelisek | May 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe 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. IngramAn instant later the party was feeding itself into the inappeasable hopper of the revolving door, and so disappeared.
Joan Thursday | Louis Joseph VanceFearful that he would address me if I delayed longer I gathered courage anew and entered through a most alarming revolving door.
It Pays to Smile | Nina Wilcox PutnamJoan, feeling safe in the revolving door, watched while Tim approached the stamp window.
Joan of the Journal | Helen Diehl OldsAs far as he knew, no one but Helen, Doctor Bimble and himself was aware of the existence of the revolving door, and the tunnel.
The Gray Phantom's Return | Herman Landon
British Dictionary definitions for 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
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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