turnkey
turn kee
- n someone who guards prisoners
- Its facility is beyond "shovel-ready," he says--it's a turnkey operation.
- In 1892, exuberant Henry Ashurst was turnkey at the Flagstaff, Ariz, county jail.
- Later he helped pioneer the now common "turnkey" construction contract, under which Bechtel would design a project, build it, and turn it over to the owner by a pre-set date, for a .