churn

IPA: tʃˈɝn

A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter.
A milk churn (container for the transportation of milk).
Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company.
(telecommunications) The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.
(telecommunications) The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers.
Cyclic activity that achieves nothing.
(historical) The last grain cut at harvest; kern.

(transitive) To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.
(transitive, figuratively) To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.
(intransitive) To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.
(of a customer) To stop using a company's product or service.
(informal, travel, aviation) To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions.
(US, informal, finance, travel) To continually sign up for new credit cards in order to earn signup bonuses, airline miles, and other benefits.
(finance) To carry out wash sales in order to make the market appear more active than it really is.

Examples of "churn" in Sentences

But "the churn is huge," says pastor William Ankerberg.
The hiring that occurs to replace lost workers is called churn.
Slide 12: Rule 2 churn, baby, churn* (* as said by Guy Kawasaki)
What we call churn is someone who has not (inaudible) in a year.
But, again, a following created largely through churn is a following that doesn't have significant value in the context of marketing your book.
We actually don't disclose the churn numbers in large part because what we define as churn may be different from the next company, and we don't think there's no standardized view of churn.
On top of that, the few wireless providers already experimenting with HD, found out that churn is reduced when users used HD phones and hence HD will become a strategic marketing tool for them.
Barra estimates GM wastes $1 billion a year on what she calls "churn"-on-again, off-again vehicle projects, late design changes and transfers of engineering work from one part of the world to another.
While it is too early to predict long-term churn profiles, the first Vonage World customer groups are churning at a rate less than half that of similarly tenured customers added in the months prior to the World launch.
During a relatively placid economic period like the mid-2000s, about 65% of all hiring is associated with what economists have dubbed "churn"-the job-to-job movement of workers through the labour force, which neither adds to nor subtracts from total employment.