turn over phrasal verb ( see also ↑ turn )
1 . turn something over to somebody to give someone the right to own something, or to make someone responsible for dealing with something:
He’ll turn the shop over to his son when he retires.
turn the matter/problem/responsibility etc over to somebody
I’m turning the project over to you.
2 . turn something over to something to use land, a building etc for a different purpose:
There is a new plan to turn the land over to wind farming.
3 . turn somebody over to somebody to take a criminal to the police or another official organization:
Suspected terrorists are immediately turned over to the law.
4 . turn over something if a business turns over a particular amount of money, it earns that amount in a particular period of time:
Within ten years the theme park was turning over £20 million.
⇨ ↑ turnover
5 . if an engine turns over, or if someone turns it over, it starts to work:
The engine turned over twice and then stopped.
6 . British English to turn a page in a book or a sheet of paper to the opposite side:
Turn over and look at the next page.
7 . British English to change to another ↑ channel on a television:
Can we turn over? There’s a film I want to see.
8 . turn something over British English to search a place thoroughly or steal things from it, making it very untidy:
Burglars had been in and turned the whole house over.
⇨ turn over a new leaf at ↑ leaf 1 (3), ⇨ turn something over in your mind at ↑ mind 1 (17)