changeover
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈʧeɪndʒˌoʊvər/
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cambio
- The company is preparing for a major changeover to its new software system over the weekend.
Examples
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Other schools started the changeover in 1975-76 and later.
Academic text (1992) -
I go around the schools collecting for this water thing and try and tell them about the changeover.
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"Go ahead, make the changeover," he said, after a moment.
Fiction book (1990) -
We're helping schools to have a reason to make the changeover.
Academic text (2007) -
Before the changeover, most of this exhibition... ...was in the hands of a single private collector.
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I also have the feeling that the changeover is final and irreversible.
Blog text (25) -
The main topic on the agenda with the elders at the council meeting was what was referred to as the changeover.
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Cummins agreed to the massive and complex changeover, beginning in 1996.
Academic text (1999) -
But we knew that's how this necessary changeover would be: difficult at best, painful at worst.
Blog text (32) -
In 1971-72, 275 conventional schools began the changeover to IGE.
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
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1.1
A time when something becomes different
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3.7
A period of change from one state or stage to another
363
3.5
A change in place, position, or focus
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3.5
Changing something from one form or unit to another
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3.5
To replace one thing or person with another
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3.7
Moving from one place or state to another
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4.1
Moving data or programs from one computer system to another
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2.8
A change from one thing to another
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3.7
A change from one system to another
The move from an old system to a new one
A change from one state to another
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Etymology
The word changeover combines change ('to make different') and over ('to the other side' or 'across'), giving the picture of moving something from one state to another. So a changeover is the process or result of switching or replacing one system, activity, or shift with a different one.