
Turnkey
WordNet
noun
(1) Someone who guards prisoners
WiktionaryText
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)
- They wanted a turnkey solution for the entire system, but we could only provide the enclosure.
Noun
- A warder or jailer / goaler; keeper of the keys in a prison
- 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick papers
- ...they passed through an open door into a lobby, from which a heavy gate, opposite to that by which they had entered, and which was guarded by a stout turnkey with the key in his hand, led at once into the interior of the prison.
- 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick papers
Verb
- 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.