Associations to the word «Turnkey»

Wiktionary

TURNKEY, adjective. Ready to use without further assembly or test; supplied in a state that is ready to turn on and operate (typically refers to an assembly that is outsourced for manufacture)
TURNKEY, noun. (now archaic) A warder or jailer / gaoler; keeper of the keys in a prison.
TURNKEY, verb. To supply a turnkey product; to supply something fully assembled and ready to use

Dictionary definition

TURNKEY, noun. Someone who guards prisoners.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope