turndown

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English

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Etymology

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Deverbal from turn down

Noun

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turndown (plural turndowns)

  1. A downturn.
    • 2009 January 3, Amy Zipkin, “Drugstores, Too, Feel Recession Pain”, in New York Times[1]:
      In past recessions, drugstores were virtually immune from a turndown.
  2. A rejection.
  3. (hotels) The service of turning down the bedcovers and often leaving chocolates, etc., on the pillow.
    • 2006, June Eveleigh Brown, Karen Brown, Lorena Aburto Ramirez, Karen Brown's Spain, page 38:
      Also, the amenities vary between the paradors: almost all that we visited had hairdryers, many had small refrigerators in the room, and some even had bathrobes and turndown service.
  4. A downward pointing extension to a vehicle muffler.
  5. (engineering) The operational range of a device.

Adjective

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turndown (not comparable)

  1. Capable of being turned down, or decreased in intensity.
    a turndown lamp
  2. Made to wear with the upper part turned down.
    a turndown collar

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