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Phrasal Verbs / PHRASA~1

Switch on & switches on switching on switched on switched on

1. switch ...on p.v. When you switch on an electrical or mechanical device, you change the controls to make it start producing or doing something. Turn on is simi­lar to switch on. Switch off is the opposite of switch on.

Push this button to switch the computer on.

The sign should have been switched on by the manager in the morning.

switched on part.adj. After you have changed the controls of an electrical or mechanical device to make it start producing or doing something, it is switched on. Switched off is the opposite of switched on. Turned on is similar to switched on.

When I drove by the restaurant, I noticed that the sign wasn't switched on.