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Meaning of Turnover | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈtɝnoʊvɚ

Definitions

  1. The amount of money taken as sales transacted in a given period.
  2. The frequency with which stock is replaced after being used or sold, workers leave and are replaced, a property changes hands, etc.
  3. A semicircular pastry made by turning one half of a circular crust over the other, enclosing the filling (such as fruit).
  4. A loss of possession of the ball without scoring.
  5. A measure of leg speed: the frequency with which one takes strides when running, typically given in strides per minute.
  6. The act or result of overturning something; an upset.
  7. Synonym of runover.
  8. An apprentice, in any trade, who is handed over from one master to another to complete his time.

Equivalents

Examples

“The company had an annual turnover of $500,000.”
“High staff-turnover can lead to low morale amongst employees”
“Those apartments have a high turnover because they are so close to the railroad tracks.”
“In the case of pathological hypercoagulative conditions such as thrombosis and embolism, 4-hydroxycoumarin based oral anticoagulants, including warfarin as a well-known example, are administered to block the enzymatic function of VKORC1, effectively diminishing turnover of the vitamin K cycle.”
“They only served me one apple turnover for breakfast.”
“The Nimrods committed another dismaying turnover en route to another humiliating loss.”
“Australia’s 18 turnovers were a costly case of self-harm. So, too, were the two interception tries that ultimately wrecked any chance of Michael Cheika’s side ending their recent grim sequence against the Poms.”
“a bad turnover in a carriage”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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