Meaning of Turnkey | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A system that is supplied ready to switch on and operate.
2. A warder or jailer; a keeper of the keys in a prison.
   archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“The hardware-software costs are packaged together. Turnkeys are either special purpose (e.g., only for one function such as libraries) or general purpose […]”

“He saw the same Turnkey unfetter a man / With but little expedition, / Which put him in mind of the long debate / On the Slave-trade abolition.”

“[…]they passed through an open door into a lobby, from which a heavy gate, opposite to that by which they had entered, and which was guarded by a stout turnkey with the key in his hand, led at once into the interior of the prison.”

“'Certainly not,' said the turnkey; and the first corroborated his statement.”

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