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adverb toward or in the higher part of a stream; against the current.
adjective directed upstream; situated upstream: an upstream journey; an upstream hideout.
Commerce . of or relating to the early stages in the operations of a business or industry, as exploration and production in the oil business (opposed to downstream).
against or opposite to the direction of transcription, translation, or synthesis of a DNA, RNA, or protein molecule.
Origin of upstream First recorded in 1675–85; up- + stream
Words nearby upstream upstage, upstairs, upstanding, upstart, upstate, upstream , upstretched, upstroke, up-sum, upsurge, upsweep
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Example sentences from the Web for upstream You wanted to be upstream with the artists, not downstream with the consumers.
Apple Wants Beats So It Can Control You | Ted Gioia| May 12, 2014| DAILY BEAST
The young men and women who went there drank like upstream salmon and studied in between switching kegs at kegger parties.
Joe Paterno Must Retire | Buzz Bissinger| September 8, 2011| DAILY BEAST
Melissa Lion is the author of two novels, Swollen and Upstream , both published by Random House.
The Stripper Who Lost a Breast | Melissa Lion| August 21, 2009| DAILY BEAST
The Surge has stemmed the blood loss from the land between two rivers, but upstream from Mesopotamia, the patient still bleeds.
How America Blew It in Syria | Christopher Brownfield| October 28, 2008| DAILY BEAST
The site is divided by a gulch on the upstream side of which, it was said, there had once been houses.
California Athabascan Groups | Martin A. Baumhoff
The racks were so arranged that the fish could get upstream through the bars, but could not get downstream.
Bill Bruce on Forest Patrol | Henry Harley Arnold
The easy rain of two days ended in a heavy downpour—a deluge upon the mountainside a mile or so upstream .
In Beaver World | Enos Abijah Mills
An hour later we struck the river, and another hour upstream brought us to where the contest of tongues was to come about.
A Knight of the Cumberland | John Fox Jr.
When the tide changes, we'll float off and go on upstream all right.
Roy Blakeley | Percy Keese Fitzhugh
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British Dictionary definitions for upstream adverb , adjective in or towards the higher part of a stream; against the current
(in the oil industry) of or for any of the stages prior to oil production, such as exploration or research Compare downstream (def. 2)
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