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/tˈərnˌoʊvər/ Listen

noun

Turnover n.

The act or result of turning over; an upset; as, a bad turnover in a carriage.

A semicircular pie or tart made by turning one half of a circular crust over the other, inclosing the fruit or other materials; as, an apple turnover.

An apprentice, in any trade, who is handed over from one master to another to complete his time.

adjective

Turnover adj. Admitting of being turned over; made to be turned over; as, a turnover collar, etc.

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Etymology of 'Turnover'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Turnover" Quotes from Famous Books

... the people in their Sunday dress. The men wear three or four cloth waistcoats, all of different lengths, so as to let the various colours, red, white, and blue, with which they are bound, appear one above the other in tiers, a muslin turnover collar, full plaited breeches of fine cloth tied at the knee by garters of floating ribbon, white woollen stockings with worked clocks and light yellow shoes, their flap hats ornamented with a roll of chenille of varied colours. The headdress of the ...

— Brittany & Its Byways • Fanny Bury Palliser

... most successfully managed factories also plan their annual product so that employment will be continuous. They have discovered that the periods of unemployment seriously affect the personnel of a labor force and they estimate that the turnover of the labor force which requires the constant breaking in of new men is an item of serious financial loss. The Ford Automobile Works at one time hired 50,000 men in one year while not employing at any one time more than 14,000. They estimated ...

— Creative Impulse in Industry - A Proposition for Educators • Helen Marot

... business which you may enter after leaving this institution. Most of the businesses presenting the greatest possibilities from the point of view of an engineering career are those requiring very large investment and having a comparatively small turnover or yearly income. Of necessity, in all enterprises of this character, the main factor of cost is interest, and if you intend following engineering as a profession, my advice to you would be to learn first the value of money, or, to put it another ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898 • Various

... little sallies in response to her companion's talk. He was telling her all about the carnival. The Derby was the greatest race the world over. It was run for about six thousand sovereigns, but the total turnover of the meeting was probably a million of money. Thus on its business side alone it was a great national enterprise, and the puritans who would abolish it ought to think of that. A race-horse cost about three hundred a year to keep, but of ...

— The Christian - A Story • Hall Caine

... Our rapid turnover of patients involved a large amount of manual labour in stretcher work, clearing up wards, and so on, but all this was done for us by our brancardiers, or stretcher-bearers. These were Belgians who for one reason or another ...

— A Surgeon in Belgium • Henry Sessions Souttar

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