[
US
/ˈtɹɛnd/
]
[ UK /tɹˈɛnd/ ]
[ UK /tɹˈɛnd/ ]
NOUN
-
the popular taste at a given time
the 1920s had a style of their own
he followed current trends
leather is the latest vogue -
a general direction in which something tends to move
the trend of the stock market
the shoreward tendency of the current -
general line of orientation
the northeastern trend of the coast
the river takes a southern course -
a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
a broad movement of the electorate to the right
not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book
VERB
-
turn sharply; change direction abruptly
The motorbike veered to the right
The car cut to the left at the intersection
How To Use trend In A Sentence
- I am from the Jewish origin and I can talk a lot about Jewish trends including a paranoidal fear that 'someone will get us this time.' OpEdNews - Diary: Black Americans Don't Get It
- Little wonder consumers care a great deal for this trendy fashion accessory.
- The trend toward à la carte pricing - once the hallmark of no-frills, low-cost carriers - has in recent years been adopted by the legacy airlines, and will likely continue in 2009, as carriers try to boost what they call ancillary revenue. Latest News
- Another trend referred to two related areas – increased user-centeredness and increased inter-disciplinarity. Archive 2008-02-01
- There has been no trend in tropical cyclone intensity or frequency worldwide. Times, Sunday Times
- buck the trend
- He writes for some trendy magazine for the under-30s.
- Hula hoops and pet rocks were fads; personal computers and cellular telephones are trends that are changing the way people live.
- ‘We've been on an economic downtrend for the past three years that needs to be stopped,’ said the head of the BDA employers association.
- The crowd is a mix between trendy hotel visitors and posh Londoners.