Volte-face Synonyms

vôlt-fäs', vôl'tə-

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Synonyms for Volte-face

reversal
(Sports) A maneuver in wrestling in which a competitor being controlled by the opponent suddenly reverses the situation and gains control.
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policy change
a major change in attitude or principle or point of view
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tergiversation
The act of evading any clear course of action or speech, of being deliberately ambiguous; equivocation; fickleness.
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about-face
(Military) An abrupt turn to face the opposite direction.
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u-turn
(Literally) A turn in a vehicle carried out by driving in a semicircle in order to travel in the opposite direction.
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contraposition
A placing opposite or over against; antithesis; contrast
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Volte-face Sentence Examples

  • Its acquisition was a significant one, representing a volte-face in the Library's attitude to ephemeral materials.

  • Still, it did not take long before this buyer made a complete volte-face.

  • Then, in a complete volte-face, a referendum was conceded.

  • Leo X., Julius II.s successor, by an astute volte-face exchanged Parma and the Concordat for a guarantee of all the Churchs possessiOns, which meant the defeat of French plans (1515).

  • Does this volte-face represent the end of the dreams spun around the Web?

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