Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An increase, especially a small or incremental one.
- noun A transaction in a stock market executed at a price above the previous transaction for the same security.
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- noun A small change
upwards orincrease in something that has been steady or declining. - noun finance A
stock market transaction orquote at a price above a preceding one.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a transaction in the stock market at a price above the price of the preceding transaction
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Whether the uptick is about setting a precedent against opponents early on or something else, the presence of a player like King can certainly give other teams pause before challenging the Capitals.
Poll: Do you like the new, tougher Capitals? Katie Carrera 2010
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Whilean $8,000first-time home buyer tax credit and a separate $6,500 repeat home buyer tax creditexpiring at the end of April mayplay a role in influencing sales — after all, the credits exist to spur them — the uptick is notable.
March Madness: Pending Sales are Up, but is it Real? « PubliCola 2010
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Psychologists believe the uptick is most likely linked to the recession, she said.
Gulf Oil Spill Well Is Dead, But Not Residents' Anguish AP 2010
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Psychologists believe the uptick is most likely linked to the recession, she said.
Gulf Oil Spill Well Is Dead, But Not Residents' Anguish AP 2010
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If the DJIA falls by the target amount, the collar is called the uptick rule.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002
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If the DJIA falls by the target amount, the collar is called the uptick rule.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002
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The brewer of Castle and Carling beer may see a short-term uptick from the soccer World Cup in South Africa, where it has a nearly 90 percent market share, even if SAB's management did not believe it would see a significant uptick in volumes.
IOL: News 2010
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That followed comments he made in March when he called the uptick in homicides "worrisome," and decried, "We have fewer police officers on the streets than we did before."
Conceptual Guerilla - Central Command in the War of Ideas Joe Lyles 2010
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An Opera spokesman tells us that unlike Mozilla, his company has not seen a significant download uptick from the French.
Signs of the Times 2010
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It simulates, (i) the associated medium term uptick in household and corporate sector loan losses in the banking book, and (ii) immediate mark to market losses arising from trading book holdings of government bonds of each country.
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"The city’s courts, meanwhile, have registered an uptick in the number of people getting arraigned on minor charges: In 2007, the last year for which the court system published statistics, the number of arraignments for infractions and violations was the highest in 10 years – 20 percent greater than the previous year."
- Robert Neuwirth, The Criminalization of Everyday Life, citylimits.org, March 2009.
April 5, 2009