turnover rate

1. 1.

   the ratio of the number of workers that had to be replaced in a given time period to the average number of workers

   Synonymsemployee turnoverturnover

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Questions about turnover rate

What does turnover rate mean?

turnover rate means "the ratio of the number of workers that had to be replaced in a given time period to the average number of workers".

What is another word for turnover rate?

Close synonyms include employee turnover, turnover. 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 rate a common word?

turnover rate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.