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Definition

To relinquish; give back.

To transfer.

To produce, complete, or cycle through.

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Origins

From turn + over.

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In Context

  • "They turned over the evidence to the authorities."
  • "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 winds, with a “Laissez-faire” and the rest of it: this is evidently not the thing."
  • "They can turn over about three hundred units per hour."
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