Definition of be turn-key

turn-key

adjective

• fully equipped and ready to go.

  This beautiful turn-key ranch is ready to move in.

  Here is a turn-key investment: a gas station on Forth and Main.

  • See more words with the same meaning: business (related to).

  Last edited on Mar 19 2014. Submitted by Mr. Cee on Mar 19 2014.

• an adjective for kids who have to go home to an empty house after school, using their own key to get in

  He's a turn key kid.

  Last edited on Apr 27 2014. Submitted by Zefenia on Apr 27 2014.

noun

• In the 18th and 19th century it was the term for a jailer

  Last edited on Mar 24 2014. Submitted by Brayford from Lincoln, UK on Mar 24 2014.

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Other terms relating to 'business (related to)':
bio break	Definitions include: a bathroom break.
topless meeting	Definitions include: According to Oxford University Press Blog:
EOD	Definitions include: acronym for "End of Day."
con call	Definitions include: abbreviated form of "conference call".
open the kimono	Definitions include: to share business details.
single pane of glass	Definitions include: one view that surfaces essential business data, often from multiple sources.
vulture capitalist	Definitions include: pejorative alteration of "venture capitalist".
bini	Definitions include: shortened form of "business."
brick-and-mortar	Definitions include: a "traditional" business with a physical presence.
take vertical	Definitions include: to take something vertical, i.e. to upper management.
hack	Definitions include: to play with a Hacky Sack (footbag.)
yes man	Definitions include: a person who always agrees with superiors.
cow orker	Definitions include: "co-worker".
hook up	Definitions include: a person who provides illegal drugs.
pizza profitable	Definitions include: more than ramen profitable.
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Other terms relating to 'key':
church key	Definitions include: a tool with parts to puncture holes in cans, and to pry off bottle tops.
key	Definitions include: great.
key bump	Definitions include: a bump (small amount of a powdered drug) snorted off of a key.
keyed	Definitions include: really wasted, drunk, high etc.
keyed up	Definitions include: nervous.
key hole	Definitions include: vagina.
keys	Definitions include: phone number or digits.
lose (one's) keys	Definitions include: To lose one's virginity.
low-key	Definitions include: calm; restrained.
off-key	Definitions include: something isn't right
play keys	Definitions include: to play a musical instrument that has keys, such as a piano.
turn the key(s)	Definitions include: to launch nuclear missile(s).
Other terms relating to 'turn':
(one's) turn in the barrel	Definitions include: a dirty or unpleasant task that one must do since it is part of one's share of the work, and that others have taken their turn doing before them.
page-turner	Definitions include: a good book.
ring and turn	Definitions include: a style of high-volume bartending in which one rings up a customer for their purchase, and then turns to the next customer.
turn a blind eye	Definitions include: to ignore a misdeed.
turn flip	Definitions include: of a female, to become promiscuous or to become a prostitute.
turn in	Definitions include: to go to bed.
turn inside out	Definitions include: to search very thoroughly.
turn into lasagna	Definitions include: the destruction of the human body by explosion, heavy fire or similar trauma.
turn loose	Definitions include: to let a person have free reign.
turn off	Definitions include: something one finds sexually repulsive.
turn on	Definitions include: something one finds sexually exciting.
turn (one's) back on	Definitions include: to no longer give attention to.
turn on the waterworks	Definitions include: to cry, especially for effect.
turn on to	Definitions include: See turn on.
turn over	Definitions include: to rob.
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