TURNOVER

Turnover

In human resources context, turnover or staff turnover or labour turnover is the rate at which an employer gains and loses employees. Simple ways to describe it are "how long employees tend to stay" or "the rate of traffic through the revolving door". Turnover is measured for individual companies and for their industry as a whole. If an employer is said to have a high turnover relative to its competitors, it means that employees of that company have a shorter average tenure than those of other companies in the same industry. High turnover may be harmful to a company's productivity if skilled workers are often ...

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turn over

Verb

  1. To flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom.
    Turn over the box and look at the bottom.
  2. To relinquish; give back.
    They turned over the evidence to the authorities.
  3. To transfer.
  4. To produce, complete, or cycle through.
    They can turn over about three hundred units per hour.
  5. To mull, ponder
  6. To spin the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine using the starter or hand crank in an attempt to make it run.
  7. To give up control (of the ball and thus the ability to score).
    The Giants didn't turn the ball over in their last four games.


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turnover

Noun

  1. The act or result of overturning something; an upset.
    a bad turnover in a carriage
  2. The amount of money taken as sales transacted in a calendar year
    The company had an annual turnover of $500,000.
  3. The number of times a stock is replaced after being used or sold, a worker is replaced after leaving, or a property changes hands
    Those apartments have a high turnover because they are so close to the railroad tracks.
    High staff-turnover can lead to low morale amongst employees
  4. 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.
  5. A loss of possession of the ball without scoring.
    The Nimrods committed another dismaying turnover en route to another humiliating loss.
  6. An apprentice, in any trade, who is handed over from one master to another to complete his time.

Adjective

  1. Capable of being turned over; designed to be turned over.
    a turnover collar


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