say it: TUR-nowt
turnout is a noun meaning "the group that gathers together for a particular occasion". It carries 7 recorded senses.
the group that gathers together for a particular occasion
“a large turnout for the meeting”
a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass
what is produced in a given time period
attendance for a particular event or purpose (as to vote in an election)
“the turnout for the rally”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for turnout come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.