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- noun A
trend that is part of a larger trend.
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Examples
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In a briefing, Keith Skeoch , CEO of Standard Life Investments, the insurer's investment-management business, said its earnings won't be affected much by the "subtrend" pace of the U.K. economy.
Standard Life Profit More Than Doubles Vladimir Guevarra 2011
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The economy is going to be quite choppy and subtrend.
Standard Life Profit More Than Doubles Vladimir Guevarra 2011
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This subtrend growth will make the demand gap greater and more challenging to reverse, with unemployment becoming more difficult to reduce with each year that passes.
Beyond the Crash Gordon Brown 2010
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Part of a subtrend in single fatherhood, the Rogers girls are among almost half a million children being raised by fathers who have never been married (a figure startlingly higher than the 32,000 who fit that description in 1970).
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The odds are that the reverberations will lead to subtrend growth for a couple of years.
The Housing Crisis Is Over Cyril Moulle-Berteaux 2008
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Following the tech bust of 2001, most economists expected the United States to follow the typical post-bubble path, involving years of subtrend growth to work off the excesses.
Irrational Strength 2007
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"It's a subtrend revenue-growth environment," James Ellis, an analyst at Credit Suisse Group AG, said ahead of today's report.
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"It's a subtrend revenue growth environment," James Ellis, an analyst at Credit Suisse Group AG, said ahead of today's report.
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For the purposes of this chart, we consolidate related trends, and the biggest subtrend to come out of the TCA's was "Taylor Hotner" -- a play on the name of Taylor Lautner, one of the stars of the "Twilight" franchise -- courtesy of comedian George Lopez.
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After a great many limited-run, low-key releases and messageboard ubiquity, Pink is now something of a scene leader, credited with a musical subtrend known, only half seriously, as "chillwave".
Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk 2010
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