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trender

trender noun: something which trends (has a tendency to go) in a certain way.

Noun (1)

trender (plural trenders)

  1. Something which trends (has a tendency to go) in a certain way.
    • The computer can ferret out slow-movers, down-trenders, and nonstandards, which leads to simplification and higher turnover.1965, National Industrial Conference Board, Emerging trends in marketing: a symposium
    • The other functions which have significant trends (accounting for 93.8 percent of total unified budget outlays at the mean) total 17.6 percent of potential GNP. Measured at the means, there were more dollars involved in downtrends relative to the economy than in uptrends (due almost entirely to the...1980, Federal Finance: The Pursuit of American Goals : Studies
  2. (rare) Someone who is trendy, who sets or follows trends.
    • I also saw, or thought I saw, a very similar clash of assumptions, hypotheses and explanatory styles between the tenets of the old orthodoxy (a mixture of behaviourism, structuralism, cultural relativism, Wittgensteinian holism and Piagetian constructivism) and the ideas of the new trenders.2003, Pierre-André Cazenave, Immunology - Pasteur'S Heritage, New Age International, →ISBN, page 101

Noun (2)

trender (plural trenders)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) One who cleans the filth from wool.

Forms of trender

pluraltrenders

Origin of trender

From trend (“tendency; fad”) + -er.

From trend (“clean wool”) + -er.

Words formed from trender

Questions about trender

What does trender mean?
Trender means something which trends (has a tendency to go) in a certain way.
What part of speech is trender?
Trender is a noun.
What is the plural of trender?
The plural of trender is trenders.

Words near trender in the dictionary

  1. trendbait
  2. trendbusting
  3. trended
  4. Trendelenburg
  5. Trendelenburg position
  6. trender
  7. trenders
  8. trendier
  9. trendies
  10. trendiest
  11. trendified

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