decline vs turnover

decline

noun
  • The act of declining or refusing something. 

  • A weakening. 

  • Downward movement, fall. 

  • A reduction or diminution of activity. 

  • A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road. 

verb
  • To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain. 

  • To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun. 

  • To cause to decrease or diminish. 

  • To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall. 

  • To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw. 

  • To move downwards, to fall, to drop. 

  • To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like. 

  • To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play. 

  • To become weaker or worse. 

  • To recite all the different declined forms of (a word). 

turnover

noun
  • The act or result of overturning something; an upset. 

  • The amount of money taken as sales transacted in a given period. 

  • The frequency with which stock is replaced after being used or sold, workers leave and are replaced, a property changes hands, etc. 

  • A semicircular pastry made by turning one half of a circular crust over the other, enclosing the filling (usually fruit). 

  • A loss of possession of the ball without scoring. 

  • A measure of leg speed: the frequency with which one takes strides when running, typically given in strides per minute. 

adj
  • Capable of being turned over; designed to be turned over. 

How often have the words decline and turnover occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )