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Upturn   /əptˈərn/  /ˈəptˌərn/   Listen
Upturn

noun
1.
An upward movement or trend as in business activity.






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"Upturn" Quotes from Famous Books



... worms its tender shoots, And drive the mining beetle from its roots; With ceaseless efforts rend the obdurate clay, And give my vegetable babes to day! 555 —Thus when an Angel-form, in light array'd, Like HOWARD pierced the prison's noisome shade; Where chain'd to earth, with eyes to heaven upturn'd, The kneeling Saint in holy anguish mourn'd;— Ray'd from his lucid vest, and halo'd brow 560 O'er the dark roof celestial lustres glow, "PETER, arise!" with cheering voice He calls, And sounds seraphic echo round the walls; Locks, bolts, and chains his potent touch obey, And pleased he leads ...
— The Botanic Garden - A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: The Economy of Vegetation • Erasmus Darwin



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