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: --
a dramatic/sharp/significant upturn
experience/see an upturn Forecasters expect to see an upturn in consumer spending by the end of the year.
an upturn in sth There are still no signs of an upturn in global economic growth.
economic/market upturn There are fears that higher borrowing rates will threaten the economic upturn.
The modern high-technology industries, which will benefit most from the upturn, are already there.
But there are no signs, despite the doomsters' prophecies of last year, that the upturn in manufacturing is petering out.
If there is an upturn, an awful lot of roofs will have to be replaced in the west midlands.
New ships await economic upturn.
How much the spurt in the mid-1890s owed to the easing of the technical obstacles and how much to the economic upturn is impossible to tell.
But the upturn was shortlived.
Concerns about wartime inflation surfaced before the upturn in the cocoa market, but they did not affect producer-price policy significantly until financial constraints on the control board eased.
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.
