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Turnover

noun

The ratio of the number of workers that had to be replaced in a given time period to the average number of workers. Synonyms: employee turnover, turnover rate.

A dish made by folding a piece of pastry over a filling.

The volume measured in dollars. Synonym: dollar volume.

The act of upsetting something. Synonyms: overturn, upset.

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"Turnover" Quotes from Famous Books

... A little geological turnover, a swampy land bridge formed in the right spot, and the lizards began to wander up beacon valley. And found religion. A shiny metal temple out of which poured a constant stream of magic water—the reactor-cooling water pumped down from the atmosphere condenser on the roof. ...

— The Repairman • Harry Harrison

... better living"—these were the principles which he and Mr. Anderson set out to establish in Ireland. Their representatives were described as monsters in human shape, and they were adjured to cease their "hellish work." Now the branches of the Society number nearly 1000, with an annual turnover of upwards of 2-1/2 millions, and they include creameries, village banks, and societies for the purchase of seeds and manure and for the marketing of eggs. It is not necessary to tell again the story of the Recess Committee and the formation ...

— Against Home Rule (1912) - The Case for the Union • Various

... 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. One hopes that her punishment finished with her acquittal, and that the mood of the mob, as apt as a flying straw to veer for a zephyr as for a whirlwind, swung to her ...

— She Stands Accused • Victor MacClure

Words linked to "Turnover" : turn over, knish, pirozhki, samosa, mass, inversion, dish, pirogi, upending, piroshki, volume, ratio, bulk