turnover

Examples

• All

• This encouraged a prompt turnover.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Instead, Vick has looked dazed and confused much of the time, and he's turned into a turnover machine.

  Blog text (20)

• These, of course, are notoriously late since there is such a high turnover rate of hits and artists, and since things get laughably old in a matter of days.

  Academic text (1994)

• In three games this season, Cancer has posted 15 assists and just four turnovers, a year after being nearly 1:1 (75 assists, 70 turnovers).

  Blog text (22)

• The chef expertly executed a turnover of the pastry, revealing the delicious filling inside.

• During the experiment, the liquid tank experienced a complete turnover, spilling its contents on the table.

• With a sudden turnover, the boat capsized, causing the passengers to scramble for safety.

Synonyms

U

upset

vsturnover

3 3.9

An event that makes things fall over or get mixed up

focuses on physically flipping something to lie upside down or on its side

O

overturn

vsturnover

2 4.4

An event when something becomes upside down or on its side

is only the action of flipping rather than the resulting state

U

upending

vsturnover

1 5.5

Turning something so its top is on the bottom or making it stand on its end

is more about making something stand on end than lie on its side

Compounds

T

turnover rate

• Specialized

5 4.0

How quickly workers leave a company and new workers replace them

A

apple turnover

2 1.3

A baked pastry with sweet apple filling wrapped in dough

E

employee turnover

1 3.3

How quickly workers leave a company and new ones replace them

How Overturned

capsizing

1 6.8

to topple

93 4.1

turnover

1 5.4

to tip over

27 3.0

tilt

12 2.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology