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词汇 churn
释义 churn
verb
uk /tʃɜːn/ us /tʃɝːn/

churnverb (MOVE/MIX)


[ T ](alsochurn up)
to move something, especially a liquid, with great force: 剧烈搅动(尤指液体);翻搅;使猛烈翻腾
The sea was churned up by heavy winds.狂风搅得大海白浪滔天。
[ T ]
to mix milk until it becomes butter用搅乳器搅拌(牛奶以制成黄油)
[ I ]
If your stomach is churning, you feel ill, usually because you are nervous: (通常指由于紧张而)胃部翻腾,反胃,恶心
I had my driving test that morning and my stomach was churning.参加驾照考试的那天早上,我的胃里一直在翻腾。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Shaking, swinging and vibrating
brandish
earth-shaking
flap
flappy
flourish
fluff
fluff something up
reverberation
reverberative
ripple
rock-a-bye
shake out
shakily
sway
thrash
trembly
tremulously
vibrate
vibration
vibratory

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Mixing and mixtures
Vomiting & feelings of sickness

churnverb (CUSTOMERS)


[ I or T ] business specialized
If customers churn between different companies that provide a particular service, they change repeatedly from one to another.(顾客)辗转光顾提供某种商品(或服务)的不同公司
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Changing
about-face
about-turn
alterable
altered
alternate
disturb
make an about-turn
make something into something
malleable
meta
metamorphose
morph
mutate
pervert
revolutionize
rollback
rotation
rotational
sanitization
transcribe

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Business - general words

Phrasal verb


churn something out
churn
noun
uk /tʃɜːn/ us /tʃɝːn/

churnnoun (CONTAINER)


[ C ](alsobutter churn)
a large container, often with a handle, that is used to make milk into butter by mixing it with great force :
The butter was made in a wooden churn, which had a long handle with a flat, round paddle to beat the cream.
People used to churn their own butter with a butter churn.
[ C ]UK(alsomilk churn, milk can)
a large container for transporting milk: 奶罐,奶桶;搅乳器
I used to collect a few churns of milk from my brother's farm to make cheese.
One of Houdini's most famous tricks was escaping from a padlocked milk churn.
 
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Dairy products & eggs
albumen
beurre noisette
brown butter
butter
butterfat
dairy
dairy milk
Devonshire cream
double cream
dried milk
lactic
light cream
milk fat
mylk
oat milk
sunny side upidiom
UHT
ultra-pasteurized
unhomogenized
unpasteurized

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Containers for liquids and gases

churnnoun (CUSTOMERS)


[ S or U ] business specialized(alsochurn rate)
the number of customers who decide to stop using a service offered by one company and to use another company, usually because it offers a better service or price: (客户)流失率
Internet and cable television companies suffer from a high churn rate.互联网公司和有线电视公司的用户流失率很高。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Business - general words
addressable
addressable market
Age of Exploration
amortizable
anti-commercial
contestable
contract in/out
contract something out
contractual
contractually
importation
in business
initial public offering
IPO
lean
the tertiary sector
time-and-motion study
trade secret
transact
triple play

churn | American Dictionary


churn
verb[ I/T ]
us/tʃɜrn/
to move violently:
[ I ]The water was churning and the boat was rocking.
[ M ]The fish churned up the water when we threw them some food.
[ T ]fig. Seeing the car ahead flip over churned his stomach.
To churn butter means to beat cream until it turns into butter using a special container.

Phrasal verb


churn out something
churn
noun[ C ]
us/tʃɜrn/
a container in which cream is made into butter

churn | Business English


churn
noun[ U ]
uk /tʃɜːn/us(alsochurning)
COMMERCE, MARKETING
the situation in which customers stop buying the products or services of a particular company, especially to buy them from a competitor:
Preventing customer churn is a major concern for mobile service providers, since 20-40% of customers leave their providers in a given year.
Compare
customer loyalty
HR
the situation in which employees leave their job and are replaced by new employees:
Employee churn for new hires increased by 33% for the third straight year.
churn
verb
uk /tʃɜːn/us
[ I or T ] COMMERCE, MARKETING
to stop buying the products or services of a particular company, especially in order to buy them from a competitor
[ I or T ] HR
to frequently replace employees with new employees
[ T ] STOCK MARKET
if stockbrokers churn investments or churn a client's account in order to make more money in commissions, they illegally buy and sell the client's investments more often than necessary:
The commission found that he violated the antifraud provisions of the securities laws when he churned three customer accounts.

Phrasal verb


churn sth out

Examples of churn


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In that way, blocks of flats and whole streets are churned and churned.
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She churned out the soundbites but failed to address real concerns about the working families tax credit, dismissing them as merely technical.
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The money will be churned round the system, and they will receive back some of the money that they have paid in tax.
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The mechanisms are simply churning the money around and increasing means testing.
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When one allows civil servants to come up with formulae that are punched into computers, all the discrepancies and all the injustices are churned out.
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The railway companies sometimes refuse to accept churns which are properly closed and sealed.
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I think the railway companies ought to accept the churns properly closed and sealed in order to meet this important point.
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The churns in the cowhouses are being inspected there.
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The inspection of churns will still be the duty of the local authority.
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However, as long as they are linked up, the stuff will continue to be churned out.
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More and more records were indeed churned out of the governmental machine.
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One achieves nothing; one is only churning the money over.
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Already, people can avoid churning the equivalent of 300 double-decker bus loads of lead into the environment every year.
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The material got churned into something resembling fibre, which it is difficult to describe.
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I know the difficulty about the sealing of churns, but recently the practice of sealing churns had grown.
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