Meaning

2 senses
  1. A small increase or upward change in something that has been steady or declining.

    Aufwärtstrend

    ростrost

  2. A stock market transaction or quote at a price above a preceding one.

    a transaction in the stock market at a price above the price of the preceding transaction

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Many fear an uptick in the violence.

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Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
an upward change:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
an upward change:

Origin

From up- + tick.

From up- + tick.

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Forms

plural: upticks
Singularuptick
Pluralupticks

regular

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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