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noun

churn

CEFR C1

the rate at which customers or employees leave over a given period

In a sentence

Six example sentences with churn, each labelled with its topic.

  • Growth looked fine until we plotted churn, which showed half of every signup cohort gone by month three.

    Startups

  • The call center's churn hit forty percent a year, so training budgets went to people who never stayed.

    Business

  • Economists read high churn in a labor market as a sign of confidence, not of misery, when wages rise.

    Economics

  • Player churn spikes a month after each expansion, once the new content is finished and the grind returns.

    Gaming

  • Gym churn peaks in March, when the January crowd stops coming and the standing orders quietly get cancelled.

    Fitness

  • The dashboard tracks churn by plan, and the cheapest tier loses a quarter of its users every year.

    Technology

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