trendnoun [ C ]
usuk/trend/B1 a general development or change in a situation or in the way that people are behaving:
Surveys show a trend away from home-ownership and toward rented accommodation.
There's been a downward/upward trend in sales in the last few years.
a new development in clothing, make-up, etc.:
Whatever the latest fashion trend, you can be sure Nicki will be wearing it.
The trend at the moment is for a more natural and less made-up look.
on trend
fashionable:
Her long skirt is right on trend this winter.
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- The trend towards downshifting, where employees swap the stress of corporate life for more quality time, tempted 6% of the UK workforce last year.
- You can't really extrapolate a trend from such a small sample.
- A worrying trend for insurers has been a rise in fraudulent claims.
- The trend towards home ownership has gone into reverse.
- With an upward trend in inflation, you expect prices to rise.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Lifestyles & their study
- anthropogenic
- anthropologist
- anthropology
- cultural
- culture
- demographer
- ethnography
- ethnological
- ethnology
- hermetic
- lifestyle
- living
- lot
- milieu
- sociocultural
- suburbia
- the global village
- vegetate
- way of life idiom
- westernize
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Fashion
Modern & fashionable
trendverb [ I ]
uk/trend/usto be one of the words, subjects, or names that is being mentioned most often on a social media website or a news website at a particular time:
Within minutes of the incident her name was trending on Twitter.
Click here for a list of trending topics.