The Clue
Pollster's discovery (5 letter answer)
The Answer
TREND
Tags
Notes
The answer TREND is seen frequently, appearing about once every 150 puzzles.
Related Clues
Course
Direction
Drift
Fashion
Flow
Inclination
Incline
Leaning
Movement
Tendency
Tenor
Vogue
Course; swing
General tendency
Kind of setter
Pollster's determination
Pollster's study
Roper dope
Tide of events
What's hot
Graph line indication
Graph revelation, possibly
The way things go
Not late-breaking news
That's the way it goes
The way things are going
Way things are going
What polling may reveal
General way things are going
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"