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up-cycle

up-cycle is the alternative form of upcycle.

Meaning of upcycle

Noun

upcycle (plural upcycles)

  1. A period of a cycle where something is increasing or improving.
    • You could probably take care of yourself through the cycles but during the period when one of the upcycles—it should be an upcycle for your business—you just said you are going through a worse depression from that standpoint than a normal business depression?1943, United States Congress House Committee on Naval Affairs, Investigation of the Progress of the War Effort: Hearings before the Committee on Naval Affairs, House of Representatives...

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Forms of up-cycle

pluralup-cycles

Questions about up-cycle

What is up-cycle the alternative form of?
Up-cycle is the alternative form of upcycle.

Words near up-cycle in the dictionary

  1. up-armored
  2. up-armoured
  3. up-beat
  4. up-bow
  5. up-bows
  6. up-cycle
  7. up-cycles
  8. up-date
  9. up-dated
  10. up-dates
  11. up-dating

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