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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

... had had a majority of six hundred over his Conservative opponent, so that there had been a turnover of about four hundred voters. And no one doubted that a large number of these had made up their minds to turn since Campion had begun ...

— Name and Fame - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant

... covered with a network of 886 co-operative societies, creameries, agricultural societies (for selling implements, foodstuffs, etc.), credit banks, poultry societies, and other miscellaneous organizations. The total membership is nearly 100,000, the total turnover nearly two and a half millions.[55] Nearly half the butter exported from Ireland is made in the 392 co-operative creameries, and at the other end of the scale extraordinarily valuable work is done by ...

— The Framework of Home Rule • Erskine Childers

... got up very early and took the lunch Granny had ready for him to take to school—two boiled eggs and an apple turnover—and he took his lantern and went off as straight as a dart to the mountains to ...

— The Book of Dragons • Edith Nesbit

... evasive sausage. He was not fond of these domestic conversations. Nor was he in the least reassured by his father's airy and informed comments upon the contents of the "Globe," which always arrived by post, and the marvel of its daily "turnover" article, whereof the perpetual variety throughout the decades constituted, the Colonel was wont to say, the eighth wonder of the world. Instinct, instructed by experience, assured him that these were but the first moves ...

— Stella Fregelius • H. Rider Haggard

... be, but he isn't. That son of his has bin eating him up, slow an' fast, for th' last ten years. The turnover of his trade is big enough, but the whole management of it has gone end-ways. From a man working with capital he's come down to a man financing things from hand to mouth. What's left to him now is strictly speaking his stock, his wagons, his horses, his lease, his household belongings—and whatever ...

— The Devil's Garden • W. B. Maxwell

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