turnover.

1. The total value of a business's sales during a stated period.

2. The rate at which people or items leave and are replaced.

3. A pastry folded around a filling before baking.

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Words that belong together

• annual turnover
• business turnover

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Annual turnover rose even though profits fell.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, evaluation, business. Commonness: moderately common.