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# turnkey

«turnkey» in Mova's school dictionary: **A jailer who unlocks and locks the doors of a prison** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (turnkeys); old use

### meaning for a pupil

A jailer who unlocks and locks the doors of a prison. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turnkey/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

the jailer in old prison stories, who holds the keys

### examples

- The turnkey locked the cell door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turnkey/#x1)
- The turnkey spoke to his prisoners. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turnkey/#x2)
- I ran into the house of the turnkey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turnkey/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «turnkey» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turnkey/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.