turnover

Other forms of turnover

plural

turnovers·

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.

Questions about turnover

What does turnover mean?

turnover means "the ratio of the number of workers that had to be replaced in a given time period to the average number of workers". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in turnover?

turnover has 3 syllables: tur-no-ver. The stress falls on "tur". In IPA it is /ˈtɝˌnoʊvɚ/.

What is another word for turnover?

Close synonyms include employee turnover, turnover rate, dollar volume, upset, overturn. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is turnover a common word?

turnover is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.