1 [C,U] ~ (of sth) a change of sth so that it is the opposite of what it was:
a complete / dramatic / sudden reversal of policy * the reversal of a decision / position / trend * The government suffered a total reversal of fortunes last week.
2 [C] a change from being successful to having problems or being defeated:
the team's recent reversal * The company's financial problems were only a temporary reversal.
3 [C,U] an exchange of positions or functions between two or more people:
It's a complete role reversal / reversal of roles (= for example when a husband cares for the house and children while the wife works).
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for reversal is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is reversal a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, reversal is tagged as noun.
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