turnover

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The act or fact of turning over.
• noun An abrupt change or transfer, as of power or ownership.
• noun 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.
• noun The number of times a particular stock of goods is sold and restocked during a given period of time.
• noun The amount of business transacted during a given period of time.
• noun The number of shares of stock sold on the market during a given period of time.
• noun The number of things that are replaced by others of the same kind, or the rate at which this happens.
• noun The number of workers that have left a workplace or industry and been replaced in a given period of time, or the rate at which this happens.
• noun The ratio of this number to the number of employed workers in a workplace.
• noun Sports A loss of possession of the ball or puck to the opposing team, as by a misplay or an infraction of the rules.
• adjective Capable of being turned or folded down or over.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The amount of a material which is turned over, or on which some process is carried out: nearly equivalent to output.
• noun An essay or article that begins on the last column of a page of a newspaper and ‘turns over’ to the next page.
• noun The act or result of turning over: as, a turnover in a carriage.
• noun 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.
• noun An apprentice whose indentures have been transferred or turned over to a new employer. Also called turnover apprentice.
• noun A piece of white linen formerly worn by cavalry over their stocks.
• noun The amount of money turned over or drawn in a business, as in a retail shop, in a specified time.
• noun A kitchen utensil: same as slice, 3 .
• Turned over or down; capable of being turned over or down.
• A turn-up table—that is, a table whose top can he moved into a vertical position.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the ratio of the number of workers that had to be replaced in a given time period to the average number of workers
• noun the act of upsetting something
• noun the volume measured in dollars
• noun a dish made by folding a piece of pastry over a filling
• verb do business worth a certain amount of money
• verb move by turning over or rotating
• verb turn up, loosen, or remove earth
• verb place into the hands or custody of
• verb turn from an upright or normal position
• verb cause to move around a center so as to show another side of
• verb think about carefully; weigh
• verb cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
• verb turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse