roundabout

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Only slighty more roundabout than RMS's system for browsing the web.

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Quick take

a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island; "the accident blocked all traffic at the rotary"

Meaning at a glance

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noun

a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island; "the accident blocked all traffic at the rotary"

noun

a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride or amusement

adjective

marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct; "the explanation was circuitous and puzzling"; "a roundabout paragraph"; "hear in a roundabout way that her ex-husband was marrying her best friend"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for roundabout.

noun

a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island; "the accident blocked all traffic at the rotary"

noun

a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride or amusement

adjective

deviating from a straight course; "a scenic but devious route"; "a long and circuitous journey by train and boat"; "a roundabout route avoided rush-hour traffic"

Example sentences

Only slighty more roundabout than RMS's system for browsing the web.

Of course, if you are a young person who knows they want to start a startup, this seems like a roundabout approach, and one that requires a lot of faith.

Your roundabout answer to this question leaves me very concerned for the future of the web if Google actually thinks this isn't a problem.

It was a single-vehicle accident caused by sliding out of control on the very water-logged roundabout.

You see a lot of engineers that took a roundabout course into the field after wasting years pursuing a different major or regular desk jobs, etc.

But the relative division of benefits is changed in Google's favor: the promotional programs can be a crafty, roundabout way of increasing prices.

This is not to say that such a system isn't useful; just that I believe the fact they're so full of child pornography and the like is actually, in a roundabout way, an indicator of a healthy society.

This happened after the vehicle impacted a roundabout at 110 mph, shearing off 15 feet of concrete curbwall and tearing off the left front wheel, then smashing through an eight foot tall buttressed concrete wall on the other side of the road and tearing off the right front wheel, before crashing into a tree.