revolving door

English

A revolving door

revolving door (plural revolving doors)

A door that rotates around a central pivot.
(figuratively) A system or institution in which 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.
Synonym of recidivism

rotating door

Catalan: porta giratòria f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 旋轉門／旋转门 (xuánzhuǎnmén)
Dutch: draaideur (nl) f
Finnish: pyöröovi (fi)
French: porte tournante (fr) f
Galician: porta xiratoria f
German: Drehtür (de) f
Hungarian: forgóajtó (hu)
Irish: doras imrothlach m
Italian: bussola (it) f, porta girevole f
Japanese: 回転ドア (kaiten doa)
Korean: 회전문(回轉門) (ko) (hoejeonmun)
Latvian: virpuļdurvis f pl
Plautdietsch: Dreidäa f
Polish: drzwi obrotowe f pl
Portuguese: porta giratória f
Romanian: ușă rotativă f, ușă turnantă (ro) f, ușă tambur f, ușă giratorie f
Russian: враща́ющаяся дверь (ru) f (vraščájuščajasja dverʹ), дверь-верту́шка f (dverʹ-vertúška)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: окретна врата f
Roman: okretna vrata f
Spanish: puerta giratoria f
Swedish: karuselldörr (sv) c, roterdörr (sv) c, roterande dörr c (colloquial)
Turkish: döner kapı (tr)
Vietnamese: cửa xoay, cửa quay
Welsh: drws tro m

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