plural upticks
1
: an increase, rise, or upward trend
For the professional middle class in particular, an uptick in innovation and a return to faster economic growth would solve many problems, and likely reignite income growth.—
Don Peck
Don PeckAny near-term uptick in jobs will probably be small, because there's still plenty to be milked from existing workers.—Rana Foroohar
Rana Foroohar2
finance
: a stock market transaction at a price above the last previous transaction in the same security
Hong Kong has long required that stocks can only be sold short on upticks, meaning when the last trade of a specific stock in the market was higher than the preceding trade of that stock.—Martin Fackler and Keith Bradsher
compare downtick sense 2
Martin Fackler and Keith BradsherExamples of uptick in a Sentence
an uptick in sales over the last fiscal year
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Total donations this year are about $70 million ahead of last year’s pace—a sharp uptick sparked in part by public concern over the loss of federal support.
—Nik Popli, Time, 1 Aug. 2025
Newsweek's poll tracker shows a similar uptick, with his net approval at -7 (45 percent approve, 52 percent disapprove), up from -10 last week.
—Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Aug. 2025
Hannah Montana’s Songs Surge on Spotify Spotify shared data showing that many Hannah Montana tunes enjoyed massive upticks in streams after Cyrus’s comments went viral.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
Powell said Wednesday that the Fed is committed to making sure the recent inflation uptick becomes permanent.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 30 July 2025
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Nik Popli, Time, 1 Aug. 2025
Newsweek's poll tracker shows a similar uptick, with his net approval at -7 (45 percent approve, 52 percent disapprove), up from -10 last week.
—Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Aug. 2025
Hannah Montana’s Songs Surge on Spotify Spotify shared data showing that many Hannah Montana tunes enjoyed massive upticks in streams after Cyrus’s comments went viral.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
Powell said Wednesday that the Fed is committed to making sure the recent inflation uptick becomes permanent.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 30 July 2025
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“Uptick.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/uptick. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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