turning over

Verb

turn over (third-person singular simple present turns over, present participle turning over, simple past and past participle turned over)

1. (transitive) To flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom.
   • Turn over the box and look at the bottom.
2. (idiomatic, transitive) To relinquish; give back.
   • They turned over the evidence to the authorities.
3. (idiomatic, transitive) To transfer.
   • But what is to be done with our manufacturing population […] This one thing, of doing for them by ‘underselling all people,’ and filling our own bursten pockets and appetites by the road; and turning over all care for any ‘population,’ or human or divine consideration except cash only, to the...1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. IX, Working Aristocracy”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern...
4. (idiomatic, transitive) To produce, complete, or cycle through.
   • They can turn over about three hundred units per hour.
5. (transitive) To generate (a certain amount of money from sales).
   • The business turned over several million last year.
6. (transitive) To mull, ponder
   • Thus they dwelled for nearly a year, and in that time Robin Hood often turned over in his mind many means of making an even score with the Sheriff1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC

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