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English
Prepositional phrase
out of turn
- When it is not one's turn.
1960 December, “More L.T. progress with programme machines”, in Trains Illustrated, page 758:There are also controls to select out-of-turn working or acknowledge a warning that the programme-roll description of a train and train-describer description are at variance, [...].[...] The machines can automatically take account of late running of trains and, if it exceeds a pre-determined amount, can despatch a train out of turn.
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Translations
when it is not one's turn
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: (please verify) 不按規定／不按规定 (bù àn guīdìng)
- Dutch: met voorrang, voor zijn beurt, (please verify) afzonderlijk (nl)
- Finnish: jonottamatta, jonon ohi
- French: avant son tour, par priorité, exceptionnellement (fr), hors tour, hors série (fr), avec priorité, de faveur, anticipé (fr)
- German: außer der Reihe
- Hungarian: soron kívül
- Italian: fuori turno, fuori di turno
- Latin: extra ordinem
- Russian: вне очереди (vne očeredi), без очереди (bez očeredi)
- Slovene: mimo vrste, prednostno
- Spanish: fuera de turno
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