SINCE 1828
uptrend
noun
up·trend
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Definition of uptrend
: an upturn especially in business or economic activity
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Photo: daniel mihailescu/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Oil prices notably resumed their uptrend Thursday even as the dollar strengthened following a decision by the Federal Reserve to increase interest rates for a third time this year. — Christopher Alessi, WSJ, "Oil Gains on Tight Supply Concerns," 27 Sep. 2018 Since 2009, there have been ups and downs in consumer confidence lasting months, but those downward swings have not interrupted the long uptrend in the United States. — Robert J. Shiller, New York Times, "Consumer Confidence Is Lifting the Economy. But for How Much Longer?," 26 Jan. 2018 That is because, during multiyear uptrends, buying and holding will inevitably beat almost all attempts to time the market. — Mark Hulbert, WSJ, "Everyone’s a ‘Buy and Hold’ Investor Now. But Can You Stay That Way?," 6 Aug. 2017 Shipments and orders of nondefense capital goods had been on a steady uptrend over the first eight months of 2017. — Luke Kawa, Bloomberg.com, "Inside the Fed’s September Meeting: The Annotated Minutes," 11 Oct. 2017 At the same time, the cooling is unlikely to derail what’s been a gradual uptrend in sales that’s helping the housing market make progress. — Fortune, "New Home Sales Fell Nearly 10% in July," 23 Aug. 2017 Meanwhile, the selloff that has erased $250 billion from the value of tech shares is threatening to end the industry’s longest stretch of uptrend in more than two decades. — Bloomberg.com, "Your Evening Briefing," 15 June 2017 After a relatively cool period of weather from Monday through Wednesday, Chicago's temperatures will be on a considerable uptrend. — Tom Skilling, chicagotribune.com, "Much hotter days ahead as dry spell continues in Chicago," 6 June 2017 The decline of middle-skill employment and uptrend in low- and high-skill jobs could be among those structural issues. — Patricia Laya, Bloomberg.com, "Black American Workers Are Quickly Coming Back From the Sidelines," 10 May 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'uptrend.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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