0 (especially in economics) an improvement or a change to a higher level or value:
1 an increase in the amount or success of something, such as a country's economic activity:
economic/market upturn There are fears that higher borrowing rates will threaten the economic upturn.
an upturn in sth There are still no signs of an upturn in global economic growth.
experience/see an upturn Forecasters expect to see an upturn in consumer spending by the end of the year.
a dramatic/sharp/significant upturn
They are either nonprofit or modestly profitable (and in return they will be protected from the upturns and downturns of the competitive marketplace).
This happens because employers want to retain quality workers in cyclical upturns.
Both organic farming support measures and an expansion in relevant marketing initiatives contributed to this upturn in numbers2-4.
However, we have not observed this predicted upturn in exact calculations.
These figures need to be put in the context of the agricultural upturn of the 1850s and 1860s.
However, in contrast to water, capital investment in streets increased steadily again after 1886 with a major upturn in investment concentrated around 1896-1906.
If this set of questions can be answered for a few regions in the world, in different continents, they would provide the basis for an upturn in sustainable resource use.
This expansion is due to the increasing demand for olive oil by national and international markets, and has been accompanied by an upturn in nursery activity.
