"switcheroo" meaning in Anglais

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Noun

IPA: \ˌswɪtʃəˈɹuː\ Forms: switcheroos [plural]
  1. Échange, changement inattendu.
    Sense id: fr-switcheroo-en-noun-0BNsM~l- Categories (other): Exemples en anglais, Exemples en anglais à traduire
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: switcharoo

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      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Dérivations en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
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      "orig": "anglais",
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  "etymology_texts": [
    "Dérivé de switch (« changement, transfert »), avec le suffixe -roo."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "switcheroos",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ˌswɪtʃəˈɹuːz\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
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    {
      "word": "switcharoo"
    }
  ],
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        {
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "«Business & Finance: Switcheroo », Time, 30 avril 1951",
          "text": "In a corporate merger, it is usually the big company that buys a smaller one. Last week Boston's up & coming Tracerlab, Inc. pulled a switcheroo. Tracerlab, which grossed only $1,700,000 last year, bought the much bigger ($8,000,000 gross) Kelley-Koett Mfg. Co."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Don McGillivray, « Carter, true to form, pulls the ‘switcheroo’ », dans Montreal Gazette, 18 avril 1977",
          "text": "When you are dealing with American presidents, you always have to watch for the old switcheroo. Lyndon Johnson opposed Barry Goldwater's \"extremism\" on Vietnam, then proceeded to try to bomb Hanoi back into the stone age. Richard Nixon opposed price and wage controls, until he suddenly adopted them."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Jesse McKinley, «On Stage and Off », dans New York Times, 21 décembre 2001",
          "text": "The Manhattan Theater Club has pulled a switcheroo, delaying a planned production of Gone Home, by John Corwin, and replacing it with Four, by the 26-year-old playwright Christopher Shinn."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Échange, changement inattendu."
      ],
      "id": "fr-switcheroo-en-noun-0BNsM~l-"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "\\ˌswɪtʃəˈɹuː\\"
    }
  ],
  "word": "switcheroo"
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    "Mots en anglais suffixés avec -roo",
    "Noms communs en anglais",
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  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "Dérivé de switch (« changement, transfert »), avec le suffixe -roo."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "switcheroos",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ˌswɪtʃəˈɹuːz\\"
      ],
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        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
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    {
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          "ref": "«Business & Finance: Switcheroo », Time, 30 avril 1951",
          "text": "In a corporate merger, it is usually the big company that buys a smaller one. Last week Boston's up & coming Tracerlab, Inc. pulled a switcheroo. Tracerlab, which grossed only $1,700,000 last year, bought the much bigger ($8,000,000 gross) Kelley-Koett Mfg. Co."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Don McGillivray, « Carter, true to form, pulls the ‘switcheroo’ », dans Montreal Gazette, 18 avril 1977",
          "text": "When you are dealing with American presidents, you always have to watch for the old switcheroo. Lyndon Johnson opposed Barry Goldwater's \"extremism\" on Vietnam, then proceeded to try to bomb Hanoi back into the stone age. Richard Nixon opposed price and wage controls, until he suddenly adopted them."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Jesse McKinley, «On Stage and Off », dans New York Times, 21 décembre 2001",
          "text": "The Manhattan Theater Club has pulled a switcheroo, delaying a planned production of Gone Home, by John Corwin, and replacing it with Four, by the 26-year-old playwright Christopher Shinn."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Échange, changement inattendu."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\ˌswɪtʃəˈɹuː\\"
    }
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  "word": "switcheroo"
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