The Clue
General direction (5 letter answer)
The Answer
TREND
Tags
Notes
The answer TREND is seen frequently, appearing about once every 150 puzzles.
Related Clues
Direction
Draft
Drift
Fashion
Flow
Inclination
Incline
Indication
Swing
Tendency
Tenor
In thing
Vogue
With 40A, a fad
Course; swing
Current style
Economic news
Gallup concern
General tendency
Kind of setter
Poll revelation
Polling news
Pollster's concern
Pollster's determination
Pollster's discovery
Pollster's finding
Pollster's study
What's happening
The way things go
Not late-breaking news
The way things are going
What a graph may show
Where things are headed
News that may be illustrated by a graph
Definition
TREND as a noun:
1. (tendency, trend) = a general direction in which something tends to move; "the shoreward tendency of the current"; "the trend of the stock market"
2. (course, trend) = general line of orientation; "the river takes a southern course"; "the northeastern trend of the coast"
3. (drift, trend, movement) = a general tendency to change (as of opinion); "not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"; "a broad movement of the electorate to the right"
4. (vogue, trend, style) = the popular taste at a given time; "leather is the latest vogue"; "he followed current trends"; "the 1920s had a style of their own"
TREND as a verb:
1. (swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cut) = turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right"