churn

Related to churn: churn out, butter churn

churn out

To produce something in large quantities, often quickly and/or carelessly. A noun or pronoun can be used between "churn" and "out." That novelist seems to churn out a new bestseller every few months. I want to open a fine dining restaurant, not just some place that churns out burgers and fries.
See also: churn, out

churn up

To cause the movement of something in a liquid (such as sediment of some kind) by stirring. A noun or pronoun can be used between "churn" and "up." I stirred the milk and churned up bits of chocolate powder that had settled to the bottom of the glass. Because we're so close to the shore, your oars will likely churn some pebbles up.
See also: churn, up
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

churn something out

to produce something in large numbers, perhaps carelessly. We churn toys out by the thousand. This factory can churn out these parts day and night.
See also: churn, out

churn something up

to stir up a liquid; to mix up material suspended in water. The oars of our boat churned the shallow water up, leaving little clouds of sediment in our wake. The oars churned up the mud.
See also: churn, up
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

churn out

Produce in an abundant and automatic manner, as in He churned out a novel every six months. This idiom transfers the turning of milk into butter to other kinds of production. [Early 1900s]
See also: churn, out
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

churn out

v.
To produce something in an abundant and automatic manner: The author churns out four novels a year. Although the chairs look handmade, the company churns them out in a factory.
See also: churn, out
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.

churn

tv. [for a stockbroker] to cause a heavy turnover in the portfolio of an investor. (The broker collects commissions on each transaction.) I reported my broker for churning my account.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • arrange for
  • arrange for some time
  • arrange some music for
  • involve with
  • involve with (someone or something)
  • involved with
  • back into
  • back into (someone or something)
  • add in
  • angle
References in periodicals archive
- Data on the reasons cited by large enterprises for intending to churn in each country
The 2019 Business Survey: Mobile Satisfaction & Churn for Large Enterprises
The churn activities led to an overall decrease in the customer core base which resulted in decreased overall revenue.
Who renews? Who leaves? Identifying customer churn in a telecom company using big data techniques
Churn prediction has been an important topic for customer retention and relationship management and discussed in various fields including retail, finance, telecommunication and insurance (Buckinx & Van den Poel, 2005; Van den Poel & Lariviere, 2004).
Customer retention: reducing online casino player churn through the application of predictive modeling
The survey also found that iPhone users are much more likely to churn than those with another phone, and mostly in order to find a provider with faster mobile network speeds, again underlining how crucial the quality of broadband experience is to consumers.
Operators could lose half customers next year
This slight decline follows two consecutive quarters in which the churn rate increased.
Partner Communications notes slight decrease in churn rate
For this reason, labor churn is an important indicator in the annual "State of the New Economy" report.
Measuring the economic performance of regions: creative destruction and economic dynamism
Churned investors are hurt not only by excessive commission costs, but also taxes.
Churning can cost you money
Dazey improved the Inoes churn with different paddles and in May 1906 applied for a patent on a "new and useful" churn.
Dazey of St. Louis: famed butter churn line based in gateway city
For one thing, it's easier to churn an existing account than it is to find a new client.
When advisors churn, clients get burned
Step back into the times of our forefathers at the Churn Creek Protected Area where impressions from pithouses can still be found.
Churn Creek Protected Area near Williams Lake, BC
considering the telecommunications churn problem, the aim of classification is to learn
A multi-population genetic algorithm for inducing balanced decision trees on telecommunications churn data
Plus, the company was dealing with 203 million customers, of which 150 million were mobile, which is where most of the churn occurs.
Insights matter, the data proves it: look to uplift modeling to predict customer actions
"I was reminded of when I was a youngster in the 1940s and our local farmer in Netherton delivered our milk from the churn into a jug,'' he says.
Milkman was bit of a drip