TURNOVER

I. noun Date: 14th century an act or result of turning over ; upset , a turning from one side, place, or direction to its opposite ; shift , reversal , a reorganization with a view to a shift in personnel ; shake-up , something that is turned over, a filled pastry made by folding half of the crust over the other half, the amount of business done, 7. movement (as of goods or people) into, through, and out of a place, b. a cycle of purchase, sale, and replacement of a stock of goods, the ratio of sales for a stated period to average inventory, the amount received in sales for a stated period, the number of persons hired within a period to replace those leaving or dropped from a workforce, the continuous process of loss and replacement of a constituent (as a cell or tissue) of a living system, the act or an instance of a team's losing possession of a ball through error or a minor violation of the rules (as in basketball or football), II. adjective Date: circa 1849 capable of being turned over