Usually means: Circular intersection with yield control.
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  1. roundabout: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. roundabout: Merriam-Webster
  3. roundabout: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. roundabout: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. roundabout: Collins English Dictionary
  6. roundabout: Vocabulary.com
  7. Roundabout, roundabout: Wordnik
  8. roundabout: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. roundabout: Wiktionary
  10. roundabout: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. roundabout: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. roundabout: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Roundabout, roundabout: Dictionary.com
  14. roundabout (adv.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. roundabout: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Roundabout (album), Roundabout (disambiguation), Roundabout (play), Roundabout (song), Roundabout (video game), Roundabout: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Roundabout: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. roundabout: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. roundabout: Rhymezone
  20. roundabout: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. roundabout: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Roundabout: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. roundabout: FreeDictionary.org
  24. roundabout: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. roundabout: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  2. Roundabout (Intersection), roundabout: Legal dictionary

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  1. Roundabout (Intersection), roundabout: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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  1. roundabout: Idioms

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  1. roundabout: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Roundabout: Urban Dictionary

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(Note: See roundaboutness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Indirect, circuitous, or circumlocutionary.
adjective:  Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive.
noun:  (chiefly UK, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, Australia and sometimes US) A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island.
noun:  (chiefly British) A horizontal wheel which rotates around a central axis when pushed and on which children ride, often found in parks as a children's play apparatus.
noun:  A fairground carousel.
noun:  A detour.
noun:  A short, close-fitting coat or jacket worn by men or boys, especially in the 19th century.
noun:  (archaic) A round dance.
verb:  To play on a roundabout (carousel)
verb:  To travel round roundabouts
verb:  To talk in a roundabout, indirect manner

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