revolving door
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4.6
- noun
- /rɪˈvɑlvɪŋ dɔr/
- It's just one big club revolving door of personnel.
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- It's just one big club revolving door of personnel.
- It's the question of revolving doors that there seems to be a revolving door between Pfizer, FDA and CDC.
- On the other hand, I've taken on the FDA for being a, you know, a revolving door for pharmaceutical companies and for GMOs.
Examples
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One may also notice that among some politicians, there is a revolving door between the two parties or between serving the state and serving corporations.
Blog text (3) -
The NFL is a revolving door of coaches.
Blog text (5) -
There was the revolving door position that they kept putting women in.
Academic text (2006) -
A revolving-door prime ministry with a new prime minister every year or so.
Blog text (22) -
Instead, community drug treatment is typically episodic, providing at best a revolving door of services through which the client can enter repeatedly.
Academic text (2009) -
Reports have suggested that Hostess has had a revolving door of CEOs marching in over the past decade.
Blog text (13) -
How can the Prime Minister explain the revolving door between Tory Party HQ and the Swiss branch of HSBC?
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In the near term, between the adoption of the constitution in March 1956 and the military takeover of October 1958, Pakistan had four prime ministers in a revolving-door pattern that endures to this day.
Academic text (2004) -
Jennifer Ferrara, writing in The Ecologist, identifies a "revolving door" that exists between key figures in the U.S. FDA and employees at Monsanto as at least partly responsible for this laissez-faire form of regulation.
Academic text (2000) -
Many companies experience a revolving door of employees who frequently leave and are replaced by new hires.
Synonyms
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4.2
The rate at which employees leave and are replaced in a company
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4.0
How quickly workers leave a company and new workers replace them
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3.3
How quickly workers leave a company and new ones replace them
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7.6
Staff often leave and new staff replace them in a workplace
Antonyms
How Stable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a metaphorical extension of the literal object (a door that revolves, allowing continuous entry and exit), so a learner who knows 'revolve' and 'door' can plausibly infer a sense of repeated coming and going. However, mapping that physical image onto the specific institutional meaning of frequent staff turnover or replacement requires a metaphorical leap and some pragmatic knowledge, making it only partially predictable for a B1 learner.
Etymology
Revolving door is also used as a picture: imagine a busy revolving door that never stops turning and people keep stepping through, so when a place has staff always coming and going it is called a 'revolving door'.