change of direction

1. 1.

   the act of changing the direction in which something is oriented

   Synonymsreorientation

   Broaderchange

   Narrowerturnreversionchange of course

Questions about change of direction

What does change of direction mean?

change of direction means "the act of changing the direction in which something is oriented".

What is another word for change of direction?

Close synonyms include reorientation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is change of direction a common word?

change of direction is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.