Turnover

Definition: Turnover

Turnover

Noun

1. The ratio of the number of workers that had to be replaced in a given time period to the average number of workers.

2. Made by folding a piece of pastry over a filling.

3. The volume measured in dollars; "the store's dollar volume continues to rise".

4. The act of upsetting something; "he was badly bruised by the upset of his sled at a high speed".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "turnover" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1916. (references)

Avian

Business

Food & Agriculture

Labor

Law

Mining

Statistics

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Synonyms: Turnover

Crosswords: Turnover

Danish (turnover), Dutch (turnover), French (turnover), German (turnover), Italian (turnover).

And an apple turnover! (The Lost World: Jurassic Park; writing credit: David Koepp)

Quick Turnover (1975)

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Books

• Adam and the Apple Turnover (Heaven and Mirth, 1) (reference)

• Minimizing Employee Turnover by Focusing on the New Hire Process (reference)

• The $3 Turnover (reference)

• Turnover Tuesday (The Giggle Club) (reference)

• Why CEOs Fall : The Causes and Consequences of Turnover at the Top [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Little wells of tea lay here and there on the board and a knife with a broken ivory handle was stuck through the pith of a ravaged turnover.

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Health

Once peak adult bone mass is reached, bone turnover is stable in men and women such that bone formation and bone resorption are balanced. (references)

In the brain, glucocerebroside arises from the turnover of complex lipids during brain development and the formation of the myelin sheath of nerves. (references)

This lipid is a major component of the membrane of all cells in the body. The metabolic defect in types A and B is insufficient activity of an enzyme called sphingomyelinase that initiates the biodegradation of sphingomyelin that arises from normal cell turnover. (references)

Business

It accounts for 60 % of the turnover in this sector. (references)

Eighty-four percent of turnover is generated by imports. (references)

Promodis and Centradis total a turnover of USD 118 million. (references)

Economic History

Croatia

Rijeka's turnover is only 25-35 percent of pre-war levels. (references)

France

These investments amount to 6 percent of the industry's turnover. (references)

Turkey

Foreign franchises account for approximately half of this turnover. (references)

Human Rights

Belize

One factor commonly cited is the low pay offered to judges, resulting in high turnover rates. (references)

Bahamas

Police officials believe that continuing turnover in personnel is a contributing factor in disciplinary cases. (references)

Guatemala

The Director of Personnel attributes the problem to budget cuts and the constant turnover in PNC leadership that affects the personnel system. (references)

Political Economy

FINLAND

Finland replaced its turnover tax with a Value-Added Tax (VAT) in June 1994. (references)

BELGIUM

A six percent turnover tax is charged on all sales of pharmaceutical products. (references)

BELGIUM

Moreover, pharmaceutical manufacturers are saddled with a unique turnover tax of six percent. (references)

Trade

Germany

In common usage, value added tax (VAT) and turnover tax are regarded as being identical. (references)

India

Units engaged in trading activities in a SEZ must achieve a turnover of USD1 million in 5 years. (references)

Singapore

The agent must register in the name of the non-resident exporter whose turnover exceeds S$1.0 million. (references)

Travel

Chad

A tax on informal sector businesses, the Impot General Liberatoire (IGL) was install on January 1, 1998, assessed at 5 percent of the annual turnover. (references)

Worker Rights

Philippines

They consider it unpromising in view of both the organizers' restricted access to the closely guarded zones and the rapid turnover of the young, mainly female staff who work on short-term contracts in the zones' many electronics and garment factories. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "turnover": accounts receivable turnover ♦ apple turnover ♦ capital turnover ♦ deflated turnover index of retail sales ♦ goods turnover ♦ inland waterways transport enterprise turnover ♦ inventory turnover ♦ IWT enterprise turnover ♦ job turnover ♦ labor turnover ♦ labour turnover ♦ Personnel Turnover ♦ road transport enterprise turnover ♦ trade turnover ♦ turnover index ♦ turnover rate ♦ turnover tax. Additional references.

Ending with "turnover": asset-turnover, high-turnover, rapid-turnover, sales-turnover, teacher-turnover.

Albanian

xhiro (gabion, lap, round), qarkullim (circulation, currency, exchange, movement, rotation, traffic). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فطيرة محلاة, ‏تحول (chop, convert, evolution, inconstancy, juncture, metamorphosis, modification, modify, mutate, mutation, reduction, switch, transference, transform, transformation, transfusion, transition, transmutation, turn, turn into), ‏سرعة حركة الأسهم, ‏سرعة التغير, ‏إرتداد الكرة للخص في السلة, ‏رأس المال (share capital), ‏شىء يطوي, ‏دورة المبيعات, ‏دورة رأس المال, ‏دوران (circuit, circumvolution, facing, gyration, revolution, rotation, roundness, turning, twirl, wheel, whirl). (various references)

Bulgarian 

реорганизация (reorganization, shake up), тригуна, кръгообращение, оборот (cycle, overturn, revolution), промяна (alteration, change, chop, countermarch, innovation, mutation, permutation, reversal, sea change, shift, transition, transmutation, turn, variance, variation), прекатурване (capsize, roll over, tumble, upset). (various references)

Chinese 

转交, 營業額 (sum or volume of business). (various references)

Czech

obrat (conversion, ply, return, reverse, rifle, spoil, strip, trim, turn, veer). (various references)

Danish

omsætning (circulation, conversion, overrunning, reimposition, remaking-up, turn-over). (various references)

Dutch

omzet (demand, sale). (various references)

Esperanto

spezo. (various references)

Faeroese

keyp og søla, handil (business, commerce, grocery store, shop, store, trade, transaction). (various references)

Farsi 

تعویض (Refill, Replacement, Shift, Substitute, Switch), برگردان (Lapel, Refrain, Revers), بازده (Output, Revenue, Yield), انتقال (Bail, Conduction, Conveyance, Intuition, Shift, Transmission, Transmittal), عایدی فعالیت , برگشتگی (Deviance, Invert), سرمایه (Asset, Capital, Stock), محصول (Crop, Harvest, Produce, Product, Vintage, Yield), تعمق کردن (Deliberate, Ponder), غلتاندن (Roll, Trundle), ورق زدن (Leaf), وارونه کردن (Cant, Convert, Reverse, Turnout, Turquoise), واژگون شدگی , مرورکردن , عملکرد (Work). (various references)

Finnish

liikevaihto (overturn, sales, total revenue). (various references)

French

turnover, rotation (turnround), renouvellement, chiffre d'affaires. (various references)

German

Umsatz (metabolic rate, overturn, sales, water renewal). (various references)

Greek 

τζίρος (overturn, sales). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�'ור (destruction, knock out), תחלופ�" (alternative, substitution), ש� וי (alteration, change, modification, mutation, revision, shift, studied, variation), קפולית, פ�"יון (ransom, redemption), �"פכ�" (conversion, inversion, reversal, upset). (various references)

Hungarian

forgalom (business done, circulation, commerce, return, through traffic, traffic, travel), forgás (gyration, gyre, revolution, rotation, round, spin, swing, swirl, turning, turning round and round, twirl, whirl). (various references)

Italian

turnover. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

転身 , 取引高 (volume of business). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

とりひき� か (volume of business), て�"し�" (cakes, changing course or direction, Chinese dessert, divine will, naivete, providence, refreshment, shifting position, Tientsin, Zen monk's snack, zenith). (various references)

Korean 

회� �율. (various references)

Manx

filltane ooyll (apple turnover). (various references)

Pig Latin

urnovertay

Portuguese

trambolhão (fall, mucker, tumble), torta de maçã (apple-pie), volume de negócios (volume of business), valor dos negócios, rotatividade, rotação (circuit, rev, rolling, turn, twirl, wind), renovação da água (water renewal), dobra (crease, crinkle, crumple, double, folding, gather, kink, lappet, meander, plait, pleat, plica, ply, ruck, turnback, turn-down, winding, wrinkle), ato de virar. (various references)

Romanian

rãsturnare a unui obiect, plãcintã (mince pie, pie, tart), circulaţie a mãrfurilor, circuit (circuit, circulation, network, round), articol de ziar care continuã. (various references)

Russian 

оборот (ply, return, revolution, turn, volute, wheeling, wind), опрокидывание (capsize, tripping, tumbling, upset), пирог с начинкой. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

promet (movement, overturn, traffic, turn over), prevrtanje (capsize, nose over, overturn, upset), preokret (reversal, shift, switch, turn over, upheaval, vicissitude, volte-face), pazar (take), obrt (locution, overturn, turn, turn over), izgubljena lopta (turn over). (various references)

Spanish

facturación (billing, invoicing, registration). (various references)

Swedish

omsättning (sale). (various references)

Turkish

satış işlemleri, meyveli turta, iş hacmi (trading), fire (leakage, outage, shrinkage, ullage, Wantage, wastage), eksilme (decrease, decrement, diminution, falling away, falling off, wane), devir hızı, devir (age, alienation, assignation, assignment, cession, circle, circulation, circumvolution, currency, cycle, disposal, epoch, era, Eyre, grant, gyration, period, release, Rev, revolution, rotation, rounder, spin, take over, transfer, transference). (various references)

Ukrainian

оберт (circumvolution, rotation, turn, wheeling, wind), зміна (alteration, alternation, casting, change, mutation, relay, revolution, shift, spell, take over, variance), перекидання (canting, capsize, flip flap, move, movement, somersault, tumble, upset). (various references)

Vietnamese 

bánh kẹp. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "turnover": turnovers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Turnover" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Tirnovo, Trnovo, Trudovik, trunover, Trutnov, turnier. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: overturn.

-1 letter: overrun, runover.

-2 letters: retorn, return, router, tenour, tourer, trover, turner, unrove.

-3 letters: noter, outer, outre, overt, rerun, retro, rouen, route, roven, rover, tenor, toner, trone, trove, truer, tuner, vertu, voter.

-4 letters: euro, note, oven, over, rent, rote, roue, rout, rove, ruer, rune, runt, tern, tone, tore, torn, torr, tour, true, tune, turn, unto, vent.

+1 letter: overburnt, overturns, turnovers.

+2 letters: overstrung, overturing, overturned.

+3 letters: enterovirus, overturning, rejuvenator.

+4 letters: overtrumping, rejuvenators.

+5 letters: arteriovenous, enteroviruses, overconstruct, overexuberant, overnutrition, prerevolution, proventriculi, revolutionary.