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{
"term": "trend",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "a general direction in which a situation is changing or developing",
"sensetop": "trend towards somethingtrend in somethingtrend for somethingtrend for somebody/something to do somethingon trend",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "social/economic/political/demographic trends"
},
{
"text": "fashion/market trends"
},
{
"text": "There is a **growing trend** towards later retirement.",
"contextForm": "trend towards something"
},
{
"text": "The article discusses **current trends** in language teaching",
"contextForm": "trend in something"
},
{
"text": "This **downward trend** in sales is likely to continue."
},
{
"text": "There has been an **upward trend** in the number of accidents reported."
},
{
"text": "Predicting **long-term trends** in consumer behaviour is more difficult."
},
{
"text": "A trend for romance and nostalgia has emerged.",
"contextForm": "trend for something"
},
{
"text": "There is an increasing trend for students to live at home.",
"contextForm": "trend for somebody/something to do something"
},
{
"text": "You seem to have **set** *(= started)* a new **trend**."
},
{
"text": "This **trend** is being **reversed** *(= is going in the opposite direction)*."
},
{
"text": "One region is attempting to **buck** *(= oppose or resist)* the **trend** of economic decline."
},
{
"text": "Inflation **continued** its downward **trend** last month."
},
{
"text": "Regional growth figures are **following** the national **trend**."
},
{
"text": "The number of visitors to the city is **showing** an upward **trend**."
},
{
"text": "The **underlying trend** of inflation is still upwards."
},
{
"text": "If this **trend continues**, the species could soon become extinct."
},
{
"text": "Linen is on trend *(= fashionable)* again this summer.",
"contextForm": "on trend"
},
{
"text": "I can see a worrying trend in these results."
},
{
"text": "In the 1960s, Britain set the fashion trends."
},
{
"text": "The increase in crime in London was just part of a wider trend."
},
{
"text": "The latest figures show a clear growth trend in the service sector."
},
{
"text": "We are following the American trend towards more flexible working conditions."
},
{
"text": "a trend away from narrow specialization"
},
{
"text": "Trends suggest that the car is becoming increasingly popular."
}
],
"topics": ["Change, cause and effect", "Money"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["strong", "consistent", "steady"],
"verb + trend": ["begin", "create", "set"],
"trend + verb": ["develop", "emerge", "continue"],
"preposition": ["on trend", "trend away from", "trend for"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/trend/",
"audio": "tr/trend/trend__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/trend/",
"audio": "tr/trend/trend__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "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."
}