Trend Current Car Sales Crime Earlier Retirement Set

• economic/social/political trends
• there is a growing trend towards earlier retirement.
• current trends in language teaching
• a downward/an upward trend in sales

trend

1. a general direction in which a situation is changing or developing
• economic/social/political trends
• There is a growing trend towards earlier retirement.
• current trends in language teaching
• a downward/an upward trend in sales
• You seem to have set (= started) a new trend.
• This trend is being reversed (= is going in the opposite direction).
• One region is attempting to buck (= oppose or resist) the trend of economic decline.
• The underlying trend of inflation is still upwards.
• Car crime in Oxford fell significantly last year.
• Car crime fell by about a quarter over a 12-month period.
• The number of stolen vehicles dropped from 1 013 to 780, a fall of 26 per cent.
• According to this data, 780 vehicles were stolen, 26% down on the previous year.
• There was an 11% drop in reported thefts from motor vehicles, from 1 971 to 1 737.
• These figures show that, as far as car crime is concerned, the main trend is downwards.

Extra Examples

• A trend for romance and nostalgia has emerged.
• Current trends suggest that car traffic will continue to grow.
• Despite this month’s disappointing figures, the underlying trend is healthy.
• I can see a worrying trend in these results.
• In the 1960s, Britain set the fashion trends.
• Linen is on trend again this summer.
• The data indicates a trend towards earlier retirement.
• The increase in crime in London was just part of a wider trend.
• The latest figures show a clear growth trend in the service sector.
• We are following the American trend towards more flexible working conditions.
• a trend away from narrow specialization
• efforts to buck the current downward trend in sales
• future trends in the volume of employment
• the trend towards privatization
• A picture can be built up from an analysis of economic trends.
• The company managed to buck the trend and increase profits this year.
• The result might be a reversal of current trends.
• Their new knitwear is very on trend.
• Trends suggest that the car is becoming increasingly popular.
• You seem to have set a new trend.
• a downward/upward trend in sales
• a survey of social trends
• fashion trends in sunglasses

Word Origin

• Old English trendan ‘revolve, rotate’, of Germanic origin; compare with trundle. The verb sense ‘turn in a specified direction’ dates from the late 16th cent, and gave rise to the figurative use ‘develop in a general direction’ in the mid 19th cent., a development paralleled in the noun.