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 --
Political scientists often caution against overinterpreting special election results, which non-experts often take as a bellwether.
The election has been read as a bellwether for the presidential election to be held later in the year.
The state is considered a bellwether, voting for 13 successful presidential candidates since 1952, and for the loser three times.
From 1972 it has been held by the government of the day, and is thus regarded as a bellwether seat.
He has become a fashion and stylistic bellwether.
Named after the bellwether, the literary prize is intended to support writers whose unpublished works support positive social change.
Bellwether is intended to create an overall sense of the movement of a community through a designated space.
Any drop in the influx of new riders at the local level is a clear bellwether of trouble.
