trender

trender

English

Etymology 1

trend (“tendency; fad”) +‎ -er

Noun

trender (plural trenders)

1. Something which trends (has a tendency to go) in a certain way.
   • 1965, National Industrial Conference Board, Emerging trends in marketing: a symposium:

     The computer can ferret out slow-movers, down-trenders, and nonstandards, which leads to simplification and higher turnover.

   • 1980, Federal Finance: The Pursuit of American Goals : Studies:

     The other functions which have significant trends (accounting for 93.8 percent of total unified budget outlays at the mean) total 17.6 percent of potential GNP. Measured at the means, there were more dollars involved in downtrends relative to the economy than in uptrends (due almost entirely to the presence of Function 050 (National defense) among the downward trenders).

   • 1997, Bernie Schaeffer, The Option Advisor: Wealth-Building Techniques Using Equity & Index Options, John Wiley & Sons (→ISBN), page 179:

     LOW NOISE, TIGHT TRENDERS The stocks listed in exhibit 7.12 are "tight trenders" — they post excellent upside performance relative to their standard error, or the volatility incurred in achieving this ...

2. (rare) Someone who is trendy, who sets or follows trends.
   • 2003, Pierre-André Cazenave, Immunology - Pasteur'S Heritage, New Age International (→ISBN), page 101:

     I also saw, or thought I saw, a very similar clash of assumptions, hypotheses and explanatory styles between the tenets of the old orthodoxy (a mixture of behaviourism, structuralism, cultural relativism, Wittgensteinian holism and Piagetian constructivism) and the ideas of the new trenders.

Etymology 2

trend (“clean wool”) +‎ -er

Noun

trender (plural trenders)

1. (Britain, dialectal, obsolete) One who cleans the filth from wool.

Further reading

• trender in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

trender m

1. indefinite plural of trend