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前置詞句

out of turn

1. When it is not one's turn.
   • 1960 December, “More L.T. progress with programme machines”, in Trains Illustrated, page 758:

     There are also controls to select out-of-turn working or acknowledge a warning that the programme-roll description of a train and train-describer description are at variance, [...].[...] The machines can automatically take account of late running of trains and, if it exceeds a pre-determined amount, can despatch a train out of turn.