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noun
A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A milk churn (container for the transportation of milk).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: business
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noun
The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: communications, electrical-engineering, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, telecommunications
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noun
The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: communications, electrical-engineering, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, telecommunications
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noun
Cyclic activity that achieves nothing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The last grain cut at harvest; kern.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
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verb
To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, transitive
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verb
To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Synonyms: heave
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verb
To stop using a company's product or service.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business
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verb
To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, lifestyle, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, tourism, transport, travel
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verb
To continually sign up for new credit cards in order to earn signup bonuses, airline miles, and other benefits.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, informal
Topics: business, finance, lifestyle, tourism, transport, travel
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verb
To carry out wash sales in order to make the market appear more active than it really is.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, finance
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verb
To digest.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet
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noun
a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: butter churn
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Broader terms: vessel
verb
stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: stir
verb
be agitated
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: boil, moil, roil
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Broader terms: move
Narrower terms: seethe, roll
History
Noun from Middle English chyrne, cherne, kyrne ( > Scots kirn), from Old English ċyrn, ċyrin, ċirin (“churn”), from Proto-Germanic *kirnijǭ (“churn”); verb from Middle English chyrnen from Old English ċernan, from Proto-Germanic *kirnijaną (“to churn, stir”), of unknown origin. Cognate with West Frisian tsjerne, Dutch karn, Walloon serene, German Karn, Kirne, Norwegian Bokmål kjerne, Danish kærne, Swedish kärna, Icelandic kirna.
Across languages
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