The expression typically refers to a procedure involving unloading, or clearing, maybe cleaning or repairs, and preparation for next mission, journey or voyage, so as to be ready to receive new passengers, cargo, etc. It could be used to refer to a purely administrative operation, in which a procedure was followed that, when complete, permitted a new registration, or an activity to start.

There are so many example.. Turnaround time: Period for completing a process cycle (such as repair or replacement of a component or equipment), commonly expressed as an average of previous such periods. 1.They did not have enough turnaround time and I knew that the manager would throw a fit if he knew they were losing time. 2.If you are making a big order and need it to be done on a certain day you must find out the turnaround time. Now listen its depends on where u use it if u use this in computer side it will be....... In computing, turnaround time is the total time taken between the submission of a program/process/thread/task(Linux) for execution and the return of the complete output to the customer/user. It may vary for various programming languages depending on the developer of the software or the program. do u understand