upswing
English
Etymology
From up- + swing.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ʌpˈswɪŋ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪŋ
Noun
upswing (plural upswings)
- an upward swing
- (by extension) an upward trend or an increase in activity
- Newspapers reported an upswing in the company's sales last month.
- 2021 December 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: The Greater Anglia Award for the Best Entry for 2021: Derry”, in RAIL, number 946, page 54:
- Terrorist bombing in the 1970s wrecked this area, [...]. Now, more than 30 years on, Translink has been able to capitalise on the upswing in rail use to reconfigure the station as the North West Multimodal Transport Hub.
Antonyms
- downswing
Verb
upswing (third-person singular simple present upswings, present participle upswinging, simple past and past participle upswung)
- To swing upward.
Anagrams
- upwings