0 a general development or change in a situation or in the way that people are behaving: --
1 to be one of the words, subjects, or names that is being mentioned most often on a social media website or a news website at a particular time: --
2 the general direction of changes or developments: --
3 a general development in a situation or in the way that people behave: --
growing/long-term/underlying trends
a trend towards/toward sth The trend toward bigger cars is new this year.
a trend in sth Manufacturers are being buffeted by trends in the global economy.
a trend for sth They are profiting from a growing trend for eating out.
a downward/upward trend Borrowing is on a downward trend.
consumer/industry/market trends Goods on the Retail Price Index have to be updated to accurately represent consumer trends.
4 a new development in clothing, make-up, etc.: --
5 more or less than is usual: --
The predicted stable stage distributions present the same trends (within savanna types, and during the two yearly transitions) in comparison to the observed distributions.
Yet this in no way undermined the trend towards greater political centralization.
We attempted to classify the trajectories of individual parents' change in communication over time categorically to assess how the group trends related to individuals' behaviours.
In general, the coherence of these trends tends to decrease with increasing metamorphism.
Although all tended to be more common early on, none of these trends was statistically significant.
These substantially different concepts were chosen to show a variety of trends in cost and performance.
However, even in this context, patrician fathers were dismayed to see the lengths to which their sons took this trend.
Instead, the story is of group elites and long-term trends, with a different focus and different tempo.
