upswing
UK/ˈʌpswɪŋ/
upswing noun: an upward swing.
Noun
upswing (plural upswings)
- An upward swing.
- An upward trend or an increase in activity.
- Newspapers reported an upswing in the company's sales last month.
- Terrorist bombing in the 1970s wrecked this area, […]. Now, more than 30 years on, Translink has been able to capitalise on the upswing in rail use to reconfigure the station as the North West Multimodal Transport Hub.2021 December 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: The Greater Anglia Award for the Best Entry for 2021: Derry”, in RAIL, number 946, page 54
Verb
upswing (third-person singular simple present upswings, present participle upswinging, simple past and past participle upswung)
- To swing upward.
Antonyms of upswing
Forms of upswing
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | upswings |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | upswings |
| present participle | upswinging |
| past participle | upswung |
| past | upswung |
Origin of upswing
From up- + swing.
Words that rhyme with upswing
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- sling
- bring
- jing
- ding
- cling
- unstring
- ming
- bing
- ching
- fingerling
- something
- zing
- Byng
- Beijing
- bling
- cha-ching
- ling
- Peking
- peng ting
- Singh
- thring
- Tring
- abstinence ring
- aswing
- awing
- badelynge
- bering
- Chongqing
- conserving
- ging
- hang gliding
- hing
- ing
- Jingning
- Jining
- ka-ching
- kerching
- Kunming
- mis-sing
- morphling
- pling
- png
- qing
- Southern Ming
- submitting
- tang ping
- ting
- tinkering
Questions about upswing
- What does upswing mean?
- Upswing means an upward swing.
- What part of speech is upswing?
- Upswing can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce upswing?
- Upswing is pronounced /ˈʌpswɪŋ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of upswing?
- The plural of upswing is upswings.
Words near upswing in the dictionary
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