Synonym: course, current, direction, drift, movement, tendency. Similar words: strengthen, render, entrepreneur, tremendous, rendezvous, tree, arena, rent. Meaning: [trend] 
n. 1. a general direction in which something tends to move 2. general line of orientation 3. a general tendency to change (as of opinion) 4. the popular taste at a given time. v. turn sharply; change direction abruptly.
n. 1. a general direction in which something tends to move 2. general line of orientation 3. a general tendency to change (as of opinion) 4. the popular taste at a given time. v. turn sharply; change direction abruptly. 
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31) The trend is towards reintegrating mentally ill people into the community.
32) There's been a downward/upward trend in sales in the last few years.
33) This company is the only one to have bucked the trend of a declining industry.
34) Dealers have already got wise to the trend and increased their prices accordingly.
35) You can't really extrapolate a trend from such a small sample.
36) One or two companies have managed to buck the trend of the recession.
37) A disturbing trend is that victims of violence are getting younger.
38) Nine per cent of commuters used public transport in 1995 and the trend is downwards.
39) While other newspapers are losing circulation, we are bucking the trend.
40) This trend is inexorable.
41) We are following the American trend towards more flexible working conditions.
42) This quartet represents a major new trend in modern music.
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43) Buyers have withdrawn from the market in view of the abrupt turn of the trend of prices.
44) The industrial trades are now being homogenized, and it is a general trend.
45) More changes are required to reverse the trend towards centralised power.
46) Unemployment in the area has bucked the national trend by falling over the last month.
47) The latest figures show a clear growth trend in the service sector.
48) The trend now is towards "lifestyle" electronics — black, shiny gee-whiz things that people like to own.
49) This year saw a continuation in the upward trend in sales.
50) Larger corporations are setting the trend for better maternity benefits.
51) The trend towards downshifting, where employees swap the stress of corporate life for more quality time, tempted 6% of the UK workforce last year.
52) There is a trend towards healthier eating among all sectors of the population.
53) He claims that it was he who set the trend towards long hair.
54) The increase in crime in London was just part of a wider trend.
55) A worrying trend for insurers has been a rise in fraudulent claims.
56) The trend at the moment is towards a more natural and less made-up look.
57) The growing trend is for single mothers to bring up children by themselves.
58) Successive presidents have tried to reverse this trend , but without success.
59) A rise in interest rates would reverse the downward trend in inflation.
60) The downward trend in home ownership is likely to continue.
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