turnover

See also: turn over

English

Etymology

Deverbal from turn over.

Pronunciation

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Noun

turnover (countable and uncountable, plural turnovers)

1. The amount of money taken as sales transacted in a given period.

   The company had an annual turnover of $500,000.

2. The frequency with which stock is replaced after being used or sold, workers leave and are replaced, a property changes hands, etc.

   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.

3. A semicircular pastry made by turning one half of a circular crust over the other, enclosing the filling (usually fruit).

   They only served me one apple turnover for breakfast.

4. (sports) A loss of possession of the ball without scoring.

   The Nimrods committed another dismaying turnover en route to another humiliating loss.

   • 2019 October 19, Robert Kitson, “England into World Cup semi-finals after bruising victory over Australia”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media:

     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.

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.

   a bad turnover in a carriage

7. (printing, publishing) Synonym of runover.
8. (dated) An apprentice, in any trade, who is handed over from one master to another to complete his time.

Coordinate terms

• (a pastry of a filling enclosed in a folded crust): fritter, rissole

Derived terms

• apple turnover
• turnover on downs

 

Related terms

• overturn
• turnaround

 

Translations

sales transacted

• Armenian: շրջանառություն (hy) (šrǰanaṙutʿyun)
• Bulgarian: оборо́т (bg) m (oborót)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 零售額／零售额 (zh) (língshòu'é), 營業額／营业额 (zh) (yíngyè'é)

• Danish: omsætning c
• Dutch: omzet (nl) m, zakencijfer (nl) n
• Finnish: liikevaihto (fi)
• French: chiffre d’affaires (fr) m
• German: Umsatz (de) m
• Hebrew: מחזור (he) m (makhzór)
• Italian: giro d'affari
• Japanese: 取引高 (とりひきだか, torihiki-daka)
• Korean: 영업 이익(營業利益) (yeong'eop iik)
• Norwegian: omsetning (no) m or f
• Polish: obrót (pl) m, przychód (pl) m
• Portuguese: movimento (pt) m
• Russian: товарооборо́т (ru) m (tovarooborót), оборо́т (ru) m (oborót)
• Serbo-Croatian: promet (sh) m
• Spanish: cifra de negocios f
• Swedish: omsättning (sv) c
• Ukrainian: о́біг m (óbih)
• Vietnamese: doanh thu (vi)

rate of change or replacement

• Dutch: omzet (nl), verloop (nl) n
• Estonian: käive
• Finnish: liikevaihto (fi), kiertonopeus (fi)
• French: taux de renouvellement/taux de remplacement (general) m
• German: (labor turnover only) Fluktuation (de)
• Italian: turnover (it) m, rotazione (it) f
• Polish: wymiana (pl) f, rotacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: rotatividade f
• Russian: оборо́т (ru) m (oborót), теку́честь (ru) f (tekúčestʹ)
• Spanish: movimiento de mercancías, rotación (es) m
• Ukrainian: пл́инність кáдрів f (pĺynnistʹ kádriv) (of staff, employees)

pastry

• Catalan: panada (ca) f
• Finnish: piiras (fi)
• French: chausson (fr) m
• Polish: rożek francuski
• Spanish: empanada (es) f
• Welsh: pasten f

loss of ball

• Bulgarian: грешка (bg) f (greška)
• Catalan: pèrdua de possessió (ca) f
• Finnish: pallonmenetys (fi)
• German: Turnover (de) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: balltap n

• Russian: перехва́т (ru) m (perexvát)

act of overturning something

• Bulgarian: прекатурване n (prekaturvane)
• Dutch: omdraaiing (nl) f, omdraaien (nl) n
• Finnish: kääntäminen (fi)
• French: renversement (fr) m
• Galician: vorco m, envorco m, tombo (gl) m, rouceo m
• German: Überschlagen n, Überkopfgehen n
• Italian: scombussolamento (it) m
• Russian: переворо́т (ru) m (perevorót), опроки́дывание (ru) n (oprokídyvanije)
• Spanish: vuelco (es) m

Adjective

turnover (not comparable)

1. Capable of being turned over; designed to be turned over.

   a turnover collar

   • 1922, Women's Wear, Toronto, volume 6, page 51:

     Chamoisette glove samples for spring show some very swagger styles with gauntlet tops and turnover cuffs piped and embroidered with harmonious contrasts.

Anagrams

• overturn