1the amount of money taken by a business in a particular period:a turnover approaching £4 million
2the rate at which employees leave a workforce and are replaced:high staff turnover left the program with too many young instructors [count noun]:an annual turnover of staff as high as 100%
the rate at which goods are sold and replaced in a shop.
3a small pie made by folding a piece of pastry over on itself to enclose a sweet filling:an apple turnover
4North American (in a game) a loss of possession of the ball to the opposing team:the team were sitting on their lead and taking care to avoid turnovers
turnover in other Oxford dictionaries
Definition of turnover in the US English dictionary
