Timeline for What does "the churn" mean in this passage?
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| Apr 4, 2021 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/1378769348400136196 | ||
| Mar 29, 2021 at 18:28 | comment | added | Alex M | @FumbleFingers I've also seen "churn" frequently used in a business context to refer to lots of emails flying around in a short time around some issue, as in "thanks for resolving that issue, sorry for all the churn". At some point when you have multiple entirely distinct 'domain-specific' common usages you have to start thinking that maybe it's just a common usage? | |
| Mar 29, 2021 at 17:46 | comment | added | Lambie | @FumbleFingers The money that goes round and round as punters play the game. See my link. How can any of you discount that? Geesus. | |
| S Mar 29, 2021 at 16:41 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
the phrase isn't capitalized in the passage, and not asking for word/sentence meaning, just phrase
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| Mar 29, 2021 at 16:30 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Mar 29, 2021 at 15:03 | comment | added | BruceWayne | Can you please give the source of the quote? | |
| Mar 29, 2021 at 12:02 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Lambie: I upvoted your answer. But I still say the usage is at least slightly "suspect", because it's very much domain-specific terminology. And even thopugh you could perhaps say the same thing about customer / employee churn, both of those appear regularly in "mainstream" text. And there's even a Wikipedia page on churn rate, which is a clearly-identified process in relation to customers and employees. The casino usage, on the other hand, is a significantly different kind of (domain-specific) usage, hence "atypical". | |
| Mar 29, 2021 at 2:30 | comment | added | Hot Licks | What does laundry do in a washing machine? | |
| Mar 28, 2021 at 23:45 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Mar 28, 2021 at 16:48 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I think the cited usage is at least slightly "suspect". In context, it's clearly churn = turnover / cashflow [money passing through the system], but it's not usually used this way. More often you'll see references to customer / employee churn - a situation where existing customers / employees leave a business (usually, at an undesirably high rate), to be replaced by new ones. | |
| Mar 28, 2021 at 16:47 | answer | added | Lambie | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 28, 2021 at 16:44 | history | edited | James K | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 28, 2021 at 16:38 | vote | accept | Rocky | ||
| Mar 28, 2021 at 16:33 | answer | added | James K | timeline score: 17 | |
| Mar 28, 2021 at 16:20 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 28, 2021 at 16:03 | comment | added | Ben Kovitz | Will you please tell us what definitions you've looked at so far and why they don't seem to fit this context? | |
| Mar 28, 2021 at 15:56 | comment | added | Weather Vane | Lexico has the meaning as a verb: 4 encourage frequent turnover of (investments) in order to generate commission. | |
| Mar 28, 2021 at 15:44 | history | asked | Rocky | CC BY-SA 4.0 |