0 a sudden and usually large increase in something: --
An upsurge of/in violence in the district has been linked to increased unemployment.
1 a sudden or large increase: --
Department stores report a recent upsurge in credit-card fraud.
In the past fifteen years, there has been an upsurge of interest in matters socialgerontological within both sociolinguistics and communication science.
Four developments, three geopolitical and one conceptual, help to explain the upsurge of interest in war and forced migration.
It is this remarkable upsurge right at the end of the active life of the court which is the most notable feature of the confessions.
My impression is of a significant upsurge in publication in the last decade, with new avenues of empirical and conceptual work being developed.
The sudden upsurge in self-help activity, in particular unplanned selfhelp, brought to the fore the question of control.
Why, after all, have we had this great upsurge in population over the last two centuries?
The present upsurge of mathematical models of neural activity amplifies the need for reviews on recent findings and evaluations of extant approaches in the field.
That said, and recent upsurge in critical interest notwithstanding, books about 1930s left writers remain in relatively short supply.
