adj
Meaning 1
Capable of being turned over; designed to be turned over.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- a turnover collar
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
turnover
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Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈtɝnoʊvɚ/
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noun
Meaning 2
The amount of money taken as sales transacted in a given period.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- The company had an annual turnover of $500,000.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The frequency with which stock is replaced after being used or sold, workers leave and are replaced, a property changes hands, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- High staff-turnover can lead to low morale amongst employees.
- Job dissatisfaction results in high turnover.
- Those apartments have a high turnover because they are too close to the railroad tracks.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A semicircular pastry made by turning one half of a circular crust over the other, enclosing the filling (such as fruit).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- They only served me one apple turnover for breakfast.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hand pie
noun
Meaning 5
A loss of possession of the ball without scoring.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
Examples
- The Nimrods committed another dismaying turnover en route to another humiliating loss.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
A measure of leg speed: the frequency with which one takes strides when running, typically given in strides per minute.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
An act or process of turning something over.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- a turnover in leadership
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
The act or result of overturning something; an upset.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- a bad turnover in a carriage
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 9
Synonym of runover.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: media, printing, publishing
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: runover
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 10
An apprentice, in any trade, who is handed over from one master to another to complete his time.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, dated, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 11
the act of upsetting something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he was badly bruised by the upset of his sled at a high speed
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: upset, overturn
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: inversion, upending
noun
Meaning 12
the volume measured in dollars
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the store's dollar volume continues to rise
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dollar volume
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bulk, mass, volume
noun
Meaning 13
a dish made by folding a piece of pastry over a filling
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dish
Narrower terms: apple turnover, knish, pirogi, piroshki, pirozhki, samosa
noun
Meaning 14
the ratio of the number of workers that had to be replaced in a given time period to the average number of workers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: employee turnover, turnover rate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ratio
History
Etymology
Deverbal from turn over.
Across languages
Translations
70 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: շրջանառություն (šrǰanaṙutʻyun) — sales transacted
- Bulgarian: оборо́т (oborót) — sales transacted
- Chinese Mandarin: 零售額 /零售额 (língshòu'é) — sales transacted
- Chinese Mandarin: 營業額 /营业额 (yíngyè'é) — sales transacted
- Danish: omsætning — sales transacted
- Dutch: omzet — sales transacted
- Dutch: zakencijfer — sales transacted
- Finnish: liikevaihto — sales transacted
- French: chiffre d'affaires — sales transacted
- German: Umsatz — sales transacted
- Hebrew: מחזור (makhzór) — sales transacted
- Italian: giro d'affari — sales transacted
- Japanese: 取引高 (torihiki-daka) — sales transacted
- Korean: 영업 이익 (yeong'eop iik) — sales transacted
- Norwegian: omsetning — sales transacted
- Polish: obrót — sales transacted
- Polish: przychód — sales transacted
- Portuguese: movimento — sales transacted
- Russian: товарооборо́т (tovarooborót) — sales transacted
- Russian: оборо́т (oborót) — sales transacted
- Serbo-Croatian: promet — sales transacted
- Spanish: cifra de negocios — sales transacted
- Swedish: omsättning — sales transacted
- Ukrainian: о́біг (óbih) — sales transacted
- Vietnamese: doanh thu — sales transacted
- Dutch: omzet — rate of change or replacement
- Dutch: verloop — rate of change or replacement
- Estonian: käive — rate of change or replacement
- Finnish: liikevaihto — rate of change or replacement
- Finnish: kiertonopeus — rate of change or replacement
- French: taux de renouvellement/taux de remplacement — rate of change or replacement
- German: Fluktuation — rate of change or replacement
- Italian: turnover — rate of change or replacement
- Italian: rotazione — rate of change or replacement
- Polish: wymiana — rate of change or replacement
- Polish: rotacja — rate of change or replacement
- Portuguese: rotatividade — rate of change or replacement
- Russian: оборо́т (oborót) — rate of change or replacement
- Russian: теку́честь (tekúčestʹ) — rate of change or replacement
- Spanish: movimiento de mercancías — rate of change or replacement
- Spanish: rotación — rate of change or replacement
- Spanish: rotación laboral — rate of change or replacement
- Ukrainian: пл́инність кáдрів (pĺynnistʹ kádriv) — rate of change or replacement
- Catalan: panada — pastry
- Finnish: piiras — pastry
- French: chausson — pastry
- Polish: rożek francuski — pastry
- Spanish: empanada — pastry
- Welsh: pasten — pastry
- Bulgarian: грешка (greška) — loss of ball
- Catalan: pèrdua de possessió — loss of ball
- Finnish: pallonmenetys — loss of ball
- German: Turnover — loss of ball
- Norwegian Bokmål: balltap — loss of ball
- Russian: перехва́т (perexvát) — loss of ball
- Bulgarian: прекатурване (prekaturvane) — act of overturning something
- Dutch: omdraaiing — act of overturning something
- Dutch: omdraaien — act of overturning something
- Finnish: kääntäminen — act of overturning something
- French: renversement — act of overturning something
- Galician: vorco — act of overturning something
- Galician: envorco — act of overturning something
- Galician: tombo — act of overturning something
- Galician: rouceo — act of overturning something
- German: Überschlagen — act of overturning something
- German: Überkopfgehen — act of overturning something
- Italian: scombussolamento — act of overturning something
- Russian: переворо́т (perevorót) — act of overturning something
- Russian: опроки́дывание (oprokídyvanije) — act of overturning something
- Spanish: vuelco — act of overturning something
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