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churns, plural;
  1. Agitate or turn (milk or cream) in a machine in order to produce butter
    • - the cream is ripened before it is churned
  2. Produce (butter) in such a way

  3. (of liquid) Move about vigorously
    • - the seas churned
    • - her stomach was churning at the thought of the ordeal
  4. Cause (liquid) to move in this way
    • - in high winds most of the lake is churned up
  5. Break up the surface of (an area of ground)
    • - the earth had been churned up where vehicles had passed through
  6. (of a broker) Encourage frequent turnover of (investments) in order to generate commission

Noun
  1. A machine or container in which butter is made by agitating milk or cream

  1. (churn) a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk
  2. (churn) stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter
  3. (churn) be agitated; "the sea was churning in the storm"
  4. (Churn (album)) Churn is an album of recorded music by Shihad, released in New Zealand by Wildside Records on 12 July 1993 and in Europe on 25 June 1994 on Modern Music.
  5. (Churn (river)) The River Churn is one of the Cotswold rivers that feeds into the River Thames catchment. ...
  6. (Churn (Seven Mary Three album)) Churn is the debut studio album by American post-grunge band Seven Mary Three. It was independently released and preceded the band's mainstream breakthrough, American Standard. ...
  7. (churn) A vessel used for churning; The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider; The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers, expressed by the formula Customer Quits/Customer base; To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; ...
  8. (Churn) Moving people from one workspace to another within the leased premises. Usually involves relocation of furniture, phones, and the like and can be very expensive and time consuming. A high churn rate is to be avoided.
  9. (Churn) The effect of betting and re-betting money.
  10. (churn) How many subscribers, buyers or customers leave a mailing list over a certain period of time, usually expressed as a percentage of the whole list.
  11. (Churn) Speaking of buying and selling, churning is unconscious or conscious overtrading by a broker in a customer’s account. If your broker is compensated on a per transaction basis, there may be (is) temptation to trade too frequently. ...
  12. (Churn) This sales term describes the cycle of acquiring new customers and losing others that characterizes consumer e-commerce and limits long-term customer value due to the ease of switching clientele. In so many words, the customers you lost in any given measurement of time.
  13. (Churn) The turnover of cable television subscribers due to disconnects and/or new subscribers.
  14. (Churn) calculated by dividing terminations of subscriptions during the period by the total number of subscribers at the beginning of that period.
  15. (Churn) Transfer of a customers telecommunication service from one provider to another.
  16. (Churn) the turnover of existing customers leaving, and new customers joining, the company's customer list
  17. (Churn) The term used to describe turnover in subscribers of various media such as magazines, newspapers, cable, and videotex services. Churn is an important measure of a medium's success in holding on to customers after they have been signed up as subscribers.
  18. Churn is a measurement of the percent of customers who leave you each month for voluntary reasons -usually to buy a competing service. A typical churn rate is 2% per month, or 24% per year. Churn can be reduced through retention efforts by company marketers.
  19. (CHURN) The total number of employee workplace moves made in a year, divided by the total number of office employees in that facility, multiplied by 100.
  20. (Churn) A SaaS measure of customers who do not renew their annual or monthly subscription agreement.
  21. (Churn) A measure of the tendency for an email list to shrink. It is the number of gross deletions from an email list divided by the size of the list over a period of time. ...
  22. (Churn) A section of computer code that is forever being rewritten or changed. Also can describe text documents. Writings produced by committee are rife with churn.
  23. (Churn) A television industry term that takes account of customer connects, disconnects, upgrades, and downgrades.
  24. (Churn) The loss and gaining of new customers at a particular cell phone company. Lower churn usually results in a more profitable business.
  25. (Churn) The numberof moves or office reconfigurations that involve relocating personnel and/or equipment. This is often used as a metric for better facility management and an output of a good CAFM/CIFM implementation.