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Personnel chief's problem
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turnover
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In gridiron football , a turnover occurs when the team with the ball loses possession of the ball without kicking it, which is then gained by the other team. In American football , the two events that are officially classified as "turnovers" are fumbles ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also turn-over , 1650s, "action of turning over," from the verbal phrase; see turn (v.) + over (adv.). As a kind of pastry tart, from 1798. Meaning "number of employees leaving a place and being replaced" is recorded from 1955.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Turnover \Turn"o`ver\, n. The act or result of turning over; an upset; as, a bad turnover in a carriage. A semicircular pie or tart made by turning one half of a circular crust over the other, inclosing the fruit or other materials. An apprentice, in any ...
Usage examples of turnover.
The turnover problem partly explains why nurses at Mother of Mercy, as well as at other city hospitals, are so young.
We wolfed down potato turnovers, Tandoori chicken, lamb in a cream sauce, saag paneer, and naan, all washed down with a crisp, cold white wine.
We get some turnover with the shleppers, the men who load and unload the heavy boxes at the warehouse.
Captain was performing the same office for Lady Clarinda, but with so much more attention to the lady than the book, that he often made sad work with the harmony, by turnover two leaves together.
Nor, apparently, did the fact that interpersonal conflicts forced a large turnover of crewers and scientific personnel each time.
Indeed, the old man had mentioned meteorites and the Ghosts that appeared in bright arcs in Turnover skies.
Our present electoral system, with our big modern constituencies of thousands of voters, leads to huge turnovers of political power with a relatively small shifting of public opinion.
At the level of slang, the turnover rate is so rapid that it has forced dictionary makers to change their criteria for word inclusion.
Rubiy's people had been raising the turnover even more by spooking the deadheads with psionic suggestion, playing on the negatives that were already lying in their minds.
TRAINING CHILDREN FOR TURNOVER Today, however, training for disaffiliation or disrelating begins early.
Nobody, though, after three turnovers and two dockings, suffered from null-gee nausea.
Apple pies, fritters, turnovers, apple butter, jelly, pickled apples and candied apples.
Slowing at an equal rate after turnover, Kestrel would reach Luna inside three hours.
It is a fairly large building and, unlike most suburban branch offices, the whole of the premises were devoted to banking business, for the bank carried very heavy deposits, the Lunar Traction Company, with three thousand people on its pay-roll, the Associated Novelties Corporation, with its enormous turnover, and the Laraphone Company being only three of the L.
From a small stone charcoal-fed oven the homely mole produced a stew of carrot, turnip, peas and leeks, a large cottage loaf and a button mushroom turnover garnished with parsley.