revolving door
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Alternative forms
- revolving-door
Noun
revolving door (plural revolving doors)
- A door that rotates around a central pivot.
- (figuratively) A system or institution that people exit and immediately reenter.
- 2020 July 23, Chris Daw, “'A stain on national life': why are we locking up so many children?'”, in The Guardian:
- Indeed, we happily condemn damaged children – at enormous expense – to hellholes like Feltham, where they are more likely to be assaulted or killed than to find an escape from the revolving doors of courts, prisons and addiction.
- 2022 October 20, Heather Stewart, quoting Keir Starmer, “Keir Starmer renews call for immediate general election after Truss resigns”, in The Guardian:
- After the prime minister’s abrupt Downing Street statement, in which she announced that another leadership contest would be held within a week, Starmer attacked what he called “this revolving door of chaos”.
- (politics) A movement of personnel between roles as legislators and regulators, on the one hand, and members of the industries affected by the legislation and regulation, on the other.
- 2023 June 28, Anthony Smith talks to Paul Clifton, “The industry has to go back to basics”, in RAIL, number 986, page 40:
- We've had 14 Secretaries of State through the revolving door in the first 23 years of this century. And the civil servants rotate through the departments with similar speed.
- Synonym of recidivism
Derived terms
Translations
rotating door
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Further reading
revolving door on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - revolving door (politics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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