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turnover

[turn-oh-ver]

noun

an act or result of turning over; upset.

change or movement of people, as tenants or customers, in, out, or through a place: The restaurant did a lively business and had a rapid turnover.

the aggregate of worker replacements in a given period in a given business or industry.

the ratio of the labor turnover to the average number of employees in a given period.

the total amount of business done in a given time.

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the rate at which items are sold, especially with reference to the depletion of stock and replacement of inventory: Things are slow now, but they expect an increased turnover next month.

the number of times that capital is invested and reinvested in a line of merchandise during a specified period of time.

the turning over of the capital or stock of goods involved in a particular transaction or course of business.

the rate of processing or the amount of material that has undergone a particular process in a given period of time, as in manufacturing.

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a change from one position, opinion, etc., to another, often to one that is opposed to that previously held.

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a reorganization of a political organization, business, etc., especially one involving a change or shift of personnel.

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a baked or deep-fried pastry with a sweet or savory filling in which half the dough is turned over the filling and the edges sealed to form a semicircle or triangle.

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Basketball, Football. the loss of possession of the ball to the opponents, through misplays or infractions of the rules.

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adjective

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that is or may be turned over.

15.

having a part that turns over, as a collar.

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Origin:
1605–15; noun use of verb phrase turn over

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Low turnover in a mutual fund's portfolio can mean lower taxes for investors, especially under the new tax law.

The high turnover rate of chief academic officers is a disturbing but little-known fact in higher education today.

Turnover at the top has also accelerated in recent years.

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Low turnover in a mutual fund's portfolio can mean lower taxes for investors, especially under the new tax law.

The high turnover rate of chief academic officers is a disturbing but little-known fact in higher education today.

Turnover at the top has also accelerated in recent years.

It was likely aided by a relatively slow turnover of plant types.

But the deeper layers of skin, called the dermis, do not go through this cellular turnover and so do not replace themselves.

Bespectacled business school graduates will tell you this turnover results from the low costs of switching.

High involuntary turnover rates sends a message too.

Even in recession, there is great turnover in the labour market.

The adding together of more exposures will evidently be needed to reach a fainter threshold and find the turnover.

In the labor market, he has focused on turnover and reallocation, research and development and personal relationships.

He plans to stick with his job for three years, a boon in an industry plagued by high turnover.

Language barriers and faculty turnover are major challenges.

High unemployment should help limit turnover of workers-a big headache for outsourcing firms elsewhere.

Most lakes that experience lake turnover are dimictic lakes, meaning their waters mix twice a year, usually in fall and spring.

Just look at the turnover in any behavior modification program.

Tech rolls in and out of fashion, and today the turnover is faster than ever.

The reversal was possible because of turnover among trustees.

The hours are long, much of the work is numbingly routine, and staff turnover is high.

In other words, a rapid turnover in males can result in no reproduction at all in a pride.

The feather-molt turnover time is what apparently limits the overall size of a bird.

Turnover was high amid opposition from the academic community.

It's difficult to build trust and confidence between the development office and the professoriate with such frequent turnover.

Poorly paid jobs with no entry requirements tend to have high staff turnover.

The ice cap is not the remains of glaciers, never mind yearly, seasonal turnover rates.

Japan in particular is struggling with it, as the turnover of brand-new games is so high there.

He was a good student in poor schools with dated textbooks, scarce resources for enrichment, and high teacher turnover.

With such turnover in camera backs, you're still best off thinking about the lens system.

The high turnover in the building made him anonymous.

Not surprisingly, turnover in these positions is high.

Develop your own house rules to encourage player turnover.

Such a heavy turnover is wasteful for the firms as well as for the people who depart.

We steadily bring in more people and wind up having turnover as it grows into a good select team.

Constant turnover in the development office is not good-at all.

For some officials, including those that represent for-profit colleges, the turnover holds the promise of a fresh start.

Admissions in particular has a high turnover rate thanks to long hours and low pay.

Turnover carries direct and indirect costs that weigh on a company's performance.

Consultancies, with their high turnover of keen youngsters, are especially good at this.

Only under the natural communities of game animals can a high biological capture and turnover of solar energy be maintained.

Hospitals coping with nursing shortages and high turnover are setting up.

With increased turnover comes reduced tenure in the top job-and, indeed, in other senior positions.

But any period of high turnover may be tens of thousands of years away, he said.

The cost pressures prevailing in the newspaper business have led to rapid turnover at the top.

And the small banks' higher profits came despite lower turnover per customer.

The overriding issue for investors remains whether manager turnover has had a significant bearing on long-term performance.

If you then add to this list the effect of turnover at the highest levels of the administration.

Schneider then offered to sell businesses with turnover of euro400m, and lobbied frantically to salvage the deal.

With constant turnover in football, bringing in so-called street free agents is a critical part of maintaining a team's roster.

Cuomo's concern about the state's fiscal condition is that he has allowed so little turnover in his staff at.

Kuh said that the pace of overall doctoral-faculty turnover has declined in the last decade.

Range in these was narrow, however, as the turnover was confined to relatively small amounts.

The hallmark of a good nursing home is low turnover among the aides who work there.

The number one reason for the turnover is administrative interference:.

The chain's annual workforce turnover rate is about.

Each kind of tissue has its own turnover time, depending in part on the workload endured by its cells.

But faculty members say that turnover has slowed since the college's financial health improved.

Low turnover also helps minimize taxes for investors.

He has been rewarded with remarkably low turnover rates.

The likelihood of behavior problems will also be higher, meaning the likelihood of high nanny turnover is higher.

If the baked turnover was delicate and refined, the fried one was outrageously, amazingly luscious.

Other daycare options are either babysitters with limited curricula or chain operations with high turnover.

Nor is it ever good to have frequent turnover in any workplace, especially a professional one.

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Word Origin & History

turnover

1660, "action of turning over," from turn + over; meaning "kind of pastry tart" is attested from 1798. Meaning "number of employees leaving a place and being replaced" is recorded from 1955.

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