turnoverturn‧o‧ver /ˈtɜːnˌəʊvə $ ˈtɜːrnˌoʊvər/ ●○○ noun 
The illicit drugs industry has an annual turnover of some £200 billion.turnover rose/fell Turnover rose 9%.► see thesaurus at profit2[singular, uncountable] the rate at which a particular kind of goods is soldturnover of Tri-Star’s fast turnover of stock3[singular, uncountable] the rate at which people leave an organization and are replaced by othersturnover of Low pay accounts for the high turnover.staff/labour turnover a high degree of labour turnover among women4[countable] a small fruit pie: an apple turnover
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Turnover at the two restaurants was about $7.4 million this year.
- Turnover is expected to double now that the recession is over.
- Our corporation has an annual turnover of $3.2 billion.
- Quick turnover is good for cash flow.
- Recently the company has been trying to increase its turnover by diversifying into other fields.
- We're doing everything we can to reduce staff turnover.
- A high turnover may well have been justified in view of volatile markets.
- Add in zero interceptions, and you have a turnover average of 0. 0.
- Early, the Bulldogs made enough bombs to offset their turnovers.
- On average about 25 percent of our turnover is for Group companies.
- Some inner city practices now have annual turnovers over 30%.
THESAURUS
money that you gain by selling things or doing business, after your costs have been paid: · Our profits are down this year.· The big oil companies have made enormous profits following the rise in oil prices.
the profit that a company makes: · The company said it expected fourth-quarter earnings to be lower than last year’s results.· Pre-tax earnings have grown from $6.3 million to $9.4 million.
the profit that you get from an investment: · You should get a good return on your investment.· We didn’t get much of a return on our money.· They’re promising high returns on investments of over $100,000.
the amount of business done during a particular period: · The illicit drugs industry has an annual turnover of some £200bn.
the money that a business, shop etc gets from selling its goods in a day, week, month etc: · He counted the night’s takings.· This week’s takings are up on last week’s.
money paid to you by a bank or other financial institution when you keep money in an account there: · They are offering a high rate of interest on deposits of over £3,000.· The money is still earning interest in your account.
a part of a company’s profit that is divided among the people who have shares in the company: · Shareholders will receive a dividend of 10p for each share.· The company said it will pay shareholders a final dividend of 700 cents a share.
Longman Language Activatorthe amount of business a company is doing (=a company is successful/not successful) · Business is really bad at the moment. They may have to sell some of their factories overseas.· Business was good until June and then sales fell because people were on vacation.business is booming (=business is very good) · In the old days, when business was booming, he used to fly to New York twice a week.something is good for business · Building the new highway will be good for business.
the amount of goods or services that a company sells in a particular period of time: · Our corporation has an annual turnover of $3.2 billion.· Turnover is expected to double now that the recession is over.
the amount of goods or services that a company sells: · Sales have been far better than expected.· These firms report sales of between 10 and 20 million dollars a year.sales figures (=information about how much has been sold): · December sales figures will be released on Thursday.
the amount of something that is sold the number of products that a business sells, or the value of the products it sells: · A big price increase led to a fall in sales.sales of: · Sales of the book have been astonishing.· Coupons for discounts on certain products have increased sales of those products.
the value of goods or services that a company sells over a particular period of time: · Turnover at the two restaurants was about $7.4 million this year.· Recently the company has been trying to increase its turnover by diversifying into other fields.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The illicit drugs industry has an annual turnover of some £200 billion. Turnover rose 9%. Low pay accounts for the high turnover. a high degree of labour turnover among womenCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
1[singular, uncountable] British English the amount of business done during a particular periodturnover of The illicit drugs industry has an annual turnover of some £200 billion. Turnover rose 9%. Low pay accounts for the high turnover. a high degree of labour turnover among women· Does the activity have a certain measure of substance, as measured by quarterly or annual value of turnover?· Some inner city practices now have annual turnovers over 30%.· The level of business exported currently stands at 20 percent of Rolls Wood Group's annual turnover.· He has been with the group, which has an annual turnover of £8-9m, for the past seven years.· All in all, around £3.5 billion of the company's annual turnover might be chopped out.· On the domestic market, total annual turnover of £433 billion was the highest since 1987.· But he pointed out that his annual turnover was well above £1m.· Professional villainy now boasts an annual turnover of £14 billion.
· Is there a high staff turnover?· With a high turnover of owners, a certain amount of skepticism has been built into the rooms.· The hotel business has a high staff turnover and thus a need for constant training.· Two invest oversized chunks of their portfolios in individual stocks and the third generates high turnover in a computer-driven momentum investment style.· A high turnover may well have been justified in view of volatile markets.· Any organization looking to send a message by way of systematic high turnover should consider the grave implications of this cold-blooded approach.· Possible benefits from this strategy are large profits from high turnover and economies of scale.· He thinks this is more important than a high turnover of staff, despite the fresh minds and attitudes this may encourage.
· At the same Lime he began to introduce the principle of low prices and large turnover.· Reuters Holdings had the largest turnover, up 7% at £1,467m.· A large proportion of turnover is due to recommendations by satisfied customers.· This, therefore, showed the company to have a much larger credit turnover figure than was actually the case.· Turnout rose as the opposition parties recovered from their disarray of 1918 and there was a large turnover of votes.· There is an even larger turnover in bonds worldwide than there is in shares.
· The new retail concepts are: The Burger King neighbourhood restaurant: ideal as a low-cost investment where lower turnover is projected.· Like other managerial occupations, this occupation is characterized by low turnover.· The general index lost 0.41 percent in low turnover.· He said those benefits include higher productivity, lower turnover, less absenteeism and stronger loyalty from the workforce.· Leo Burnett, an advertising agency, has a far lower employee turnover than its rivals.· One tenet: low portfolio turnover, often a mere 10 % a year.· More generally, family policies help by creating less stressed and more effective employees, and thus lower turnover.
· Myddle parish saw nothing like the same rapid turnover of personnel.· In acute care there will be pressure from rapid bed turnover, which emphasises the importance of early preparation for discharge.· A population of mice may yield up to six times its weight because of rapid turnover and high metabolism.· The effect of adversary politics in Britain is intensified by the rapid turnover of government personnel.· Where there is a high population density and a rapid population turnover, the church must achieve visibility.· Those lymphocytes responsible for recall responses have a more rapid turnover, implying that long-lived memory is not maintained by long-lived T-lymphocytes.· They tend to rely on a rapid turnover of stock, to keep down inventory levels.· In tne fast food business, every second counts and a rapid turnover of customers is essential to maximise profit margins.
· Software and services generated 44% of the total turnover in the domestic market, up from the 36% generated in 1991.· If exchange rates had remained constant, total turnover for the period would have increased by 18 percent.· The number of boxes it shifted also increased 59% to 40,000, accounting for 80% of total group turnover.· I should mention that in relation to our total export turnover, sales through those agencies have not been significant.· On the domestic market, total annual turnover of £433 billion was the highest since 1987.· Hamburger outlets are by far the most important, representing almost 80% of total turnover in the fast food market.· This means that total market turnover per day is now of the order of £4,400 million on average.· The company now makes up 62% of total group turnover, and has increased net cash balances from £500,000 to £1.6m.
NOUN· What to do about the high labour turnover?· There is also the question of the increase in labour turnover: this is bound to have increased costs to some extent.· You could attribute this labour turnover problem inpart to George's inevitable absences.· Insiders are hermetically sealed from the intrusion of outsiders by the assumption of zero labour turnover.· It may help to improve the labour turnover figures by improving morale, though this is not certain.· He analysed these results in terms of output, wastage rates, labour turnover and absenteeism.· We were told that in one area there was a high degree of labour turnover among women.
· There was no correlation between duodenal juice protein, enzyme turnover rates, and enzyme secretion.· The people in the program had a turnover rate of less than 10 percent, compared with 42 percent for the state.· Also, often as not and depending on the turnover rate, air operated filters are just as efficient.· The typical fund has a turnover rate of 83 percent.· Rises in whole body turnover rates have also been seen in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.· The average quoted turnover rate still hovers at 10 percent in spite of worker bonuses, free healthcare and rides to work.· The trypsin turnover rate, however, was not significantly changed.· Patients after acute pancreatitis had slower duodenal juice protein and amylase turnover rates but trypsin turnover was not different with controls.
· The total market capitalisation to turnover ratio for larger companies was 1.24 against 1.11 for smaller ones.· The median total market capitalisation to turnover ratio was also higher for larger companies at 0.96, against 0.81 for smaller ones.
· Labour turnover rose, as did voluntary quits.· For the first nine months of 1991 net profits rose 3 percent to £857m and turnover rose 3 percent to £1545m.· As a result, turnover rose 90% to £3m, with profits of £131,000.· Although turnover rose 11.5% to £1,287m, the chairman said that most of the increase was due to more favourable exchange rates.· Pre-tax profits fell 26.6% to £3.1m, although turnover rose 3.3% to £22m despite volume sales being down.
VERB· Still, there was some significance to this for the Lakers, beyond committing only 11 turnovers.· Jennifer Azzi had 15 points and four assists, but committed an uncharacteristic eight turnovers.· San Diego State lost to Air Force by a point, 36-35, despite committing eight turnovers.· That is, they have committed 30 turnovers and allowed 30 sacks.· Stanford is averaging 32. 6 points per game and has not committed a turnover in the last two games.· Utah committed 18 turnovers, a club playoff record.· They committed 18 turnovers against a passive defense.· A year ago, in a 71-69 loss at Providence, Abrams committed a critical turnover that wound up being the difference.
· This is impossible since turnover can only fall to zero, it can not be less than this amount.· The company's turnover for 1992 fell to 58 billion kroner, from nearly 61 billion kroner the previous year.· Down from £12.8m in 1990 to £7.9m last year, while turnover fell from £120m to £113m.
· They are so good at forcing turnovers and getting the ball out.· The 49ers forced four turnovers, including a pair of interceptions by safety Merton Hanks.· They defended, they ran the floor, they forced 17 turnovers, snapped up 12 steals and won walking away.
· Howarth has already increased the work turnover by ten percent.· Some large issues were made in the 1980s and turnover of eurosterling bonds has increased as has turnover of eurobonds in general.· It is the cutting edge of Hartlepool's economy increasing profits, turnover, employees and training.· Many gardening businesses have hit rocky ground but Waterers expects to increase turnover from £4.8m to £6m in the year to July.· Last year they increased turnover by nearly a hundred million and increased profits by nearly twenty nine percent.· The plan is to increase turnover by 10 per cent within three years.
· Calcium may protect against colorectal cancer by reducing epithelial cell turnover.
· Tay's earnings per share slumped from 5.5p to 3.04p, though turnover rose from almost £25.5 million to £27.2 million.· It made £818,000 before tax in 1992 on turnover which rose from £12.3 million to £13 million.
The illicit drugs industry has an annual turnover of some £200 billion.turnover rose/fell Turnover rose 9%.► see thesaurus at profit2[singular, uncountable] the rate at which a particular kind of goods is soldturnover of Tri-Star’s fast turnover of stock3[singular, uncountable] the rate at which people leave an organization and are replaced by othersturnover of Low pay accounts for the high turnover.staff/labour turnover a high degree of labour turnover among women4[countable] a small fruit pie: an apple turnover