0 someone or something that shows how a situation will develop or change:
1 something that shows what the general future of changes or developments will probably be:
2 someone or something that is believed to show how a situation will develop or change in the future:
3 a share whose performance is believed to show the future performance of the financial markets:
4 a company whose success or failure is believed to show the future direction of a particular industry or the economy:
5 → bellwether bond
Overall unemployment increased from 7.7 million to 10.4 million between 1937 and 1938, and in the bellwether auto and steel industries the increase was even sharper.
The commitment to violence today is a commitment to death; a commitment to unilateral and total disarmament is the bellwether of life.
There is a tendency to our degenerating into mere bellwethers.
We cannot afford bellwether leadership, narrow-minded political party warfare or obstruction.
Its main predecessor, named first, was also a bellwether of the national result.
Instead, it has generally served as a bellwether for the political movement of the nation.
Frequently, it was the bellwether for important events, and readers often followed its news leads to detect changes in policies.
Any drop in the influx of new riders at the local level is a clear bellwether of trouble.
