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turnover

turnover

7 4.7
A pastry folded around a fruit or meat filling
  • noun
  • /ˈtɜrnˌoʊvər/
translation icon : empanada
  • Hopefully, my aunt will make some dried apple turnovers (aka fried apple pies).

Examples

  • 10 large fries, 10 large colas and 10 apple turnovers.

    Hardbodies (1984)

  • Thanks for the turnover, pastry chef!

    Church Ball (2006)

  • Maybe they would live up the block from a bakery where they could get apple turnovers for dessert.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • His large hand hovered over the plate, touched first one turnover, then another, swooped on the largest, and carried it to his waiting mouth.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • "Savoury turnovers make a tasty dish "and a pleasant change from the ordinary fare..."

    The Falling (2015)

  • I baked a delicious apple turnover filled with cinnamon and sugar.

  • For dessert, we enjoyed a cherry turnover that was warm and flaky.

  • She made a savory meat turnover that everyone loved at the party.

Compounds

turnover rate
  • Specialized
5 4.0

How quickly workers leave a company and new workers replace them

apple turnover
2 1.3

A baked pastry with sweet apple filling wrapped in dough

employee turnover
1 3.3

How quickly workers leave a company and new ones replace them

How Filling

meat pie
5 1.0
empanada
7 3.2
turnover
7 4.7
dumpling
41 1.8

Surface Forms

turnover singular
turnovers plural

Morphology

turnover = turn (transparent) = over + turn

The pastry sense is directly the result of folding (turning) the pastry over, so learners who know 'turn' and 'over' can readily infer the meaning. [Postprocessing: moved 'over' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Turnover comes from the words turn + over, which mean 'fold something over'. A fruit or meat turnover is called that because the pastry is literally folded over its filling.