noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
annual
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Does the activity have a certain measure of substance, as measured by quarterly or annual value of turnover ?
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Some inner city practices now have annual turnovers over 30%.
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The level of business exported currently stands at 20 percent of Rolls Wood Group's annual turnover .
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He has been with the group, which has an annual turnover of £8-9m, for the past seven years.
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All in all, around £3.5 billion of the company's annual turnover might be chopped out.
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On the domestic market, total annual turnover of £433 billion was the highest since 1987.
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But he pointed out that his annual turnover was well above £1m.
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Professional villainy now boasts an annual turnover of £14 billion.
high
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Is there a high staff turnover ?
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With a high turnover of owners, a certain amount of skepticism has been built into the rooms.
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The hotel business has a high staff turnover and thus a need for constant training.
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Two invest oversized chunks of their portfolios in individual stocks and the third generates high turnover in a computer-driven momentum investment style.
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A high turnover may well have been justified in view of volatile markets.
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Any organization looking to send a message by way of systematic high turnover should consider the grave implications of this cold-blooded approach.
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Possible benefits from this strategy are large profits from high turnover and economies of scale.
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He thinks this is more important than a high turnover of staff, despite the fresh minds and attitudes this may encourage.
large
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At the same Lime he began to introduce the principle of low prices and large turnover .
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Reuters Holdings had the largest turnover , up 7% at £1,467m.
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A large proportion of turnover is due to recommendations by satisfied customers.
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This, therefore, showed the company to have a much larger credit turnover figure than was actually the case.
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Turnout rose as the opposition parties recovered from their disarray of 1918 and there was a large turnover of votes.
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There is an even larger turnover in bonds worldwide than there is in shares.
low
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The new retail concepts are: The Burger King neighbourhood restaurant: ideal as a low-cost investment where lower turnover is projected.
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Like other managerial occupations, this occupation is characterized by low turnover .
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The general index lost 0.41 percent in low turnover .
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He said those benefits include higher productivity, lower turnover , less absenteeism and stronger loyalty from the workforce.
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Leo Burnett, an advertising agency, has a far lower employee turnover than its rivals.
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One tenet: low portfolio turnover , often a mere 10 % a year.
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More generally, family policies help by creating less stressed and more effective employees, and thus lower turnover .
rapid
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Myddle parish saw nothing like the same rapid turnover of personnel.
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In acute care there will be pressure from rapid bed turnover , which emphasises the importance of early preparation for discharge.
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A population of mice may yield up to six times its weight because of rapid turnover and high metabolism.
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The effect of adversary politics in Britain is intensified by the rapid turnover of government personnel.
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Where there is a high population density and a rapid population turnover , the church must achieve visibility.
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Those lymphocytes responsible for recall responses have a more rapid turnover , implying that long-lived memory is not maintained by long-lived T-lymphocytes.
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They tend to rely on a rapid turnover of stock, to keep down inventory levels.
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In tne fast food business, every second counts and a rapid turnover of customers is essential to maximise profit margins.
total
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Software and services generated 44% of the total turnover in the domestic market, up from the 36% generated in 1991.
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If exchange rates had remained constant, total turnover for the period would have increased by 18 percent.
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The number of boxes it shifted also increased 59% to 40,000, accounting for 80% of total group turnover .
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I should mention that in relation to our total export turnover , sales through those agencies have not been significant.
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On the domestic market, total annual turnover of £433 billion was the highest since 1987.
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Hamburger outlets are by far the most important, representing almost 80% of total turnover in the fast food market.
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This means that total market turnover per day is now of the order of £4,400 million on average.
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The company now makes up 62% of total group turnover , and has increased net cash balances from £500,000 to £1.6m.
■ NOUN
labour
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What to do about the high labour turnover ?
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There is also the question of the increase in labour turnover: this is bound to have increased costs to some extent.
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You could attribute this labour turnover problem inpart to George's inevitable absences.
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Insiders are hermetically sealed from the intrusion of outsiders by the assumption of zero labour turnover .
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It may help to improve the labour turnover figures by improving morale, though this is not certain.
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He analysed these results in terms of output, wastage rates, labour turnover and absenteeism.
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We were told that in one area there was a high degree of labour turnover among women.
rate
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There was no correlation between duodenal juice protein, enzyme turnover rates , and enzyme secretion.
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The people in the program had a turnover rate of less than 10 percent, compared with 42 percent for the state.
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Also, often as not and depending on the turnover rate , air operated filters are just as efficient.
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The typical fund has a turnover rate of 83 percent.
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Rises in whole body turnover rates have also been seen in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
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The average quoted turnover rate still hovers at 10 percent in spite of worker bonuses, free healthcare and rides to work.
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The trypsin turnover rate , however, was not significantly changed.
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Patients after acute pancreatitis had slower duodenal juice protein and amylase turnover rates but trypsin turnover was not different with controls.
ratio
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The total market capitalisation to turnover ratio for larger companies was 1.24 against 1.11 for smaller ones.
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The median total market capitalisation to turnover ratio was also higher for larger companies at 0.96, against 0.81 for smaller ones.
rose
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Labour turnover rose , as did voluntary quits.
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For the first nine months of 1991 net profits rose 3 percent to £857m and turnover rose 3 percent to £1545m.
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As a result, turnover rose 90% to £3m, with profits of £131,000.
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Although turnover rose 11.5% to £1,287m, the chairman said that most of the increase was due to more favourable exchange rates.
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Pre-tax profits fell 26.6% to £3.1m, although turnover rose 3.3% to £22m despite volume sales being down.
■ VERB
commit
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Still, there was some significance to this for the Lakers, beyond committing only 11 turnovers .
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Jennifer Azzi had 15 points and four assists, but committed an uncharacteristic eight turnovers .
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San Diego State lost to Air Force by a point, 36-35, despite committing eight turnovers .
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That is, they have committed 30 turnovers and allowed 30 sacks.
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Stanford is averaging 32. 6 points per game and has not committed a turnover in the last two games.
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Utah committed 18 turnovers , a club playoff record.
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They committed 18 turnovers against a passive defense.
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A year ago, in a 71-69 loss at Providence, Abrams committed a critical turnover that wound up being the difference.
fall
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This is impossible since turnover can only fall to zero, it can not be less than this amount.
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The company's turnover for 1992 fell to 58 billion kroner, from nearly 61 billion kroner the previous year.
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Down from £12.8m in 1990 to £7.9m last year, while turnover fell from £120m to £113m.
force
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They are so good at forcing turnovers and getting the ball out.
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The 49ers forced four turnovers , including a pair of interceptions by safety Merton Hanks.
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They defended, they ran the floor, they forced 17 turnovers , snapped up 12 steals and won walking away.
increase
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Howarth has already increased the work turnover by ten percent.
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Some large issues were made in the 1980s and turnover of eurosterling bonds has increased as has turnover of eurobonds in general.
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It is the cutting edge of Hartlepool's economy increasing profits, turnover , employees and training.
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Many gardening businesses have hit rocky ground but Waterers expects to increase turnover from £4.8m to £6m in the year to July.
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Last year they increased turnover by nearly a hundred million and increased profits by nearly twenty nine percent.
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The plan is to increase turnover by 10 per cent within three years.
reduce
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Calcium may protect against colorectal cancer by reducing epithelial cell turnover .
rise
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Tay's earnings per share slumped from 5.5p to 3.04p, though turnover rose from almost £25.5 million to £27.2 million.
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It made £818,000 before tax in 1992 on turnover which rose from £12.3 million to £13 million.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Turnover at the two restaurants was about $7.4 million this year.
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Turnover is expected to double now that the recession is over.
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Our corporation has an annual turnover of $3.2 billion.
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Quick turnover is good for cash flow.
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Recently the company has been trying to increase its turnover by diversifying into other fields.
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We're doing everything we can to reduce staff turnover .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A high turnover may well have been justified in view of volatile markets.
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Add in zero interceptions, and you have a turnover average of 0. 0.
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Early, the Bulldogs made enough bombs to offset their turnovers.
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On average about 25 percent of our turnover is for Group companies.
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Some inner city practices now have annual turnovers over 30%.