turnover

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The act of turning over; an upset or overthrow.
2. n. An abrupt change; a reversal.
3. n. A small pastry made by covering one half of a piece of dough with a filling, folding the other half over on top, and sealing the edges.
4. n. The number of times a particular stock of goods is sold and restocked during a given period of time.
5. n. The amount of business transacted during a given period of time.
6. n. The number of shares of stock sold on the market during a given period of time.
7. n. The number of workers hired by an establishment to replace those who have left in a given period of time.
8. n. The ratio of this number to the number of employed workers.
9. n. Sports A loss of possession of the ball to the opposing team, as by a misplay or an infraction of the rules.
10. adj. Capable of being turned or folded down or over: a turnover collar.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The amount of a material which is turned over, or on which some process is carried out: nearly equivalent to output.
2. n. An essay or article that begins on the last column of a page of a newspaper and ‘turns over’ to the next page.
3. n. The act or result of turning over: as, a turnover in a carriage.
4. n. A kind of pie or tart in a semicircular form: so called because made by turning over one half of a circular crust upon the other.
5. n. An apprentice whose indentures have been transferred or turned over to a new employer. Also called turnover apprentice.
6. n. A piece of white linen formerly worn by cavalry over their stocks.
7. n. The amount of money turned over or drawn in a business, as in a retail shop, in a specified time.
8. n. A kitchen utensil: same as slice, 3 .
9. Turned over or down; capable of being turned over or down.
10. A turn-up table—that is, a table whose top can he moved into a vertical position.

Wiktionary

1. n. The act of overturning something
2. n. The amount of money taken as sales transacted in a calendar year
3. n. The number of times a stock is replaced after being used or sold, a worker is replaced after leaving, or a property changes hands
4. n. A pastry consisting of pastry or pie crust around sweet, often fruit filling.
5. n. sports A loss of possession of the ball without scoring.
6. adj. Capable of being turned over; designed to be turned over.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The act or result of turning over; an upset.
2. n. A semicircular pie or tart made by turning one half of a circular crust over the other, inclosing the fruit or other materials.
3. n. An apprentice, in any trade, who is handed over from one master to another to complete his time.
4. adj. Admitting of being turned over; made to be turned over.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. do business worth a certain amount of money
2. v. move by turning over or rotating
3. v. turn up, loosen, or remove earth
4. v. place into the hands or custody of
5. v. turn from an upright or normal position
6. v. cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
7. v. think about carefully; weigh.
8. v. cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
9. v. turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse
10. n. the ratio of the number of workers that had to be replaced in a given time period to the average number of workers
11. n. the act of upsetting something
12. n. the volume measured in dollars
13. n. a dish made by folding a piece of pastry over a filling