turndown

See also: turn down

English

Etymology

Deverbal from turn down

Noun

turndown (plural turndowns)

1. A downturn.
   • 2009 January 3, Amy Zipkin, “Drugstores, Too, Feel Recession Pain”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     In past recessions, drugstores were virtually immune from a turndown.

2. A rejection.
3. (hotels) The service of turning down the bedcovers and often leaving chocolates, etc., on the pillow.
   • 2006, June Eveleigh Brown, Karen Brown, Lorena Aburto Ramirez, Karen Brown's Spain, page 38:

     Also, the amenities vary between the paradors: almost all that we visited had hairdryers, many had small refrigerators in the room, and some even had bathrobes and turndown service.

4. A downward pointing extension to a vehicle muffler.
5. (engineering) The operational range of a device.

Adjective

turndown (not comparable)

1. Capable of being turned down, or decreased in intensity.

   a turndown lamp

2. Made to wear with the upper part turned down.

   a turndown collar

Anagrams

• down-turn, downturn