upswing
Speech parts
1. upswing - Noun
2. upswing - Verb
Meaning
an upward swing
(by extension) an upward trend or an increase in activity
Newspapers reported an upswing in the company's sales last month.
upswing (third-person singular simple present upswings, present participle upswinging, simple past and past participle upswung)
To swing upward.
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Whenever the investor sold out in an upswing as soon as the top level of the previous well-recognized bull market was reached, he had a chance in the next bear market to buy back at one third (or better) below his selling price.
There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.
After a steep decline in the U.S. honeybee population — including almost 40% last winter alone — Madren believes the state of bees is on the upswing.
A remarkable upswing started as the nation concentrated its forces on modernization even though the Habsburg monarchs obstructed all important liberal laws relating to civil and political rights and economic reforms.
Equity benchmark indices were on an upswing on September 10 following a spurt in Asian markets with Reliance Industries and banking stocks leading the rally.
About a month ago, kindly Satanists in Minneapolis realized that hate crimes against Muslims might be on the upswing again following the terror attacks in Paris.