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up-tick

up-tick is the alternative form of uptick.

Meaning of uptick

Noun

uptick (plural upticks)

  1. A small increase or upward change in something that has been steady or declining.
    • "[…] There has been an uptick in the number of people travelling with us: the evidence suggests the commuter market is growing again."2025 November 12, Paul Clifton interviews David Ross, “The RAIL Interview”, in RAIL, number 1048, pages 29-30
  2. A stock market transaction or quote at a price above a preceding one.

Forms of up-tick

pluralup-ticks

Questions about up-tick

What is up-tick the alternative form of?
Up-tick is the alternative form of uptick.

Words near up-tick in the dictionary

  1. up-regulated
  2. up-regulates
  3. up-regulating
  4. up-regulation
  5. up-stairs
  6. up-tick
  7. up-ticks
  8. up-tight
  9. up-tighter
  10. up-tightest
  11. up-to-code

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Adapted from Wiktionary: up-tick (page history and authors); uptick (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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