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turnover
/ˈtɝnoʊvɚ/
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What does turnover mean?
noun
- The amount of money taken as sales transacted in a given period.
- The frequency with which stock is replaced after being used or sold, workers leave and are replaced, a property changes hands, etc.
- A semicircular pastry made by turning one half of a circular crust over the other, enclosing the filling (such as fruit).
More meanings (7)
noun
- A loss of possession of the ball without scoring.
- A measure of leg speed: the frequency with which one takes strides when running, typically given in strides per minute.
- An act or process of turning something over.
- The act or result of overturning something; an upset.
- Synonym of runover.
- (dated) An apprentice, in any trade, who is handed over from one master to another to complete his time.
adjective
- Capable of being turned over; designed to be turned over.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈtɝnoʊvɚ/
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The sudden and amazing turnover in human affairs, dramatic beyond anything in history, already seems to be taken as a matter of course.
The stranger was a big, heavy buck with plenty of muscle, but one or two trifles such as treading on a turnover and failing to close when Rag was on low ground showed that he had not much cunning and counted on winning his battles by his weight.
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Some twenty years have elapsed since the Veuve Boursier stumbled from the stand of the accused in the Assize Court of the Seine, acquitted of the poisoning of her grocer husband, but convicted of a moral flaw which may (or may not) have rather diminished thereafter the turnover of the epicerie in the Rue de la Paix.