What does Turnkey mean?

Definitions for Turnkey
ˈtɜrnˌkiturnkey

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. prison guard, jailer, jailor, gaoler, screw, turnkeynoun

    someone who guards prisoners

Wiktionary

  1. turnkeynoun

    A warder or jailer / gaoler; keeper of the keys in a prison.

  2. turnkeyverb

    to supply a turnkey product; to supply something fully assembled and ready to use

    We can sell you all the parts, or we can turnkey the entire unit.

  3. turnkeyadjective

    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)

    They wanted a turnkey solution for the entire system, but we could only provide the enclosure.

  4. Etymology: From turn + key.

Wikipedia

  1. Turnkey

    A turnkey, a turnkey project, or a turnkey operation (also spelled turn-key) is a type of project that is constructed so that it can be sold to any buyer as a completed product. This is contrasted with build to order, where the constructor builds an item to the buyer's exact specifications, or when an incomplete product is sold with the assumption that the buyer would complete it. A turnkey project or contract as described by Duncan Wallace (1984) is: …. a contract where the essential design emanates from, or is supplied by, the Contractor and not the owner, so that the legal responsibility for the design, suitability and performance of the work after completion will be made to rest … with the contractor …. 'Turnkey' is treated as merely signifying the design responsibility as the contractor's. Turnkey contract is typically a construction contract under which a contractor is employed to plan, design and build a project or an infrastructure and do any other necessary development to make it functional or ‘ready to use’ at an agreed price and by a fixed date.In Turnkey contracts, most of the time employer provides the primary design. The contractor must follow the primary design provided by the employer. A turnkey computer system is a complete computer including hardware, operating system and application(s) designed and sold to satisfy specific business requirements.

ChatGPT

  1. turnkey

    Turnkey refers to a product or service that is designed, supplied, built, or installed fully complete and ready to operate. The provider undertakes the entire responsibility from design through completion and commissioning. The client or customer only has to "turn the key," metaphorically speaking, to make the enterprise operational.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Turnkeynoun

    a person who has charge of the keys of a prison, for opening and fastening the doors; a warder

  2. Turnkeynoun

    an instrument with a hinged claw, -- used for extracting teeth with a twist

Wikidata

  1. Turnkey

    A turnkey or a turnkey project is a type of project that is constructed so that it could be sold to any buyer as a completed product. This is contrasted with build to order, where the constructor builds an item to the buyer's exact specifications, or when an incomplete product is sold with the assumption that the buyer would complete it. A turnkey project or contract as described by Duncan Wallace is: …. a contract where the essential design emanates from, or is supplied by, the Contractor and not the owner, so that the legal responsibility for the design, suitability and performance of the work after completion will be made to rest … with the contractor …. 'Turnkey' is treated as merely signifying the design responsibility as the contractor's.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Turnkey in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Turnkey in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Turnkey in a Sentence

  1. Craig Pollock:

    In reality, it’s them having come to us because we have a turnkey operation with the business plan, with all the costings, with everything ready to go.

  2. Diana Harshbarger:

    Domestic generic manufacturers are an anomaly, and I am proud to represent US Antibiotics, one of the only turnkey amoxicillin manufacturers in the US.

  3. Tim Albrecht:

    Mike Huckabee is the caucus front-runner. He won it in 2008. He still has a lot of goodwill. Mike Huckabee has a turnkey operation here.

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