The Clue
Urbanization, e.g. (5 letter answer)
The Answer
TREND
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Notes
The answer TREND is seen frequently, appearing about once every 150 puzzles.
Related Clues
Course
Draft
Drift
Inclination
Leaning
Movement
Tendency
Tenor
Vogue
Current style
Gallup concern
General direction
General tendency
Graph depiction
Polling news
Pollster's determination
Pollster's discovery
Pollster's finding
Pollster's study
Tide of events
What's happening
What's hot
Everybody's doing it
Not late-breaking news
The way things are going
Way things are going
What a graph may show
What polling may reveal
Where things are headed
What a line on a chart may show
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"