UP-TICK

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small increase

Example:

the up-tick in terrorist activity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("up-tick" is a kind of...):

increase; increment (the amount by which something increases)

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