worldwide trend

collocation in English

meaningsofworldwideandtrend

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worldwide
adjective
adverb
uk
/ˌwɜːldˈwaɪd/us
/ˈwɝːld.waɪd/
existing or happening in all parts of ...
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trend
noun[C]
uk
/trend/us
/trend/
a general development or change in a situation or in the way that people ...
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(Definition ofworldwideandtrendfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofworldwide trend

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The vastworldwidetrendtowards concentration of incomes and wealth since the 1990s is the playing out of a neoliberal script.
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The approach contrasts sharply with theworldwidetrendin accounting standards towards more transparency through market-based reporting based on fair value principles.
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This is particularly necessary given the growingworldwidetrendtowards producing food by artificial means.
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There seems to be aworldwidetrendtowards recognising the diversity of religious and ethnic groups.
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Yet there is, if anything, aworldwidetrendaway from fluoridation.
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The reason for theworldwidetrendtowards lower top rates of tax is clear.
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They are part of aworldwidetrendto lower raw material prices.
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Yes, there are fewer people employed, but that is aworldwidetrend.
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This is disturbing, even though it is part of theworldwidetrend.
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The beginning refers to aworldwidetrend.
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The figures in the report are part of aworldwidetrendtowards rising inequality, which is part of the way in which the global free market appears to be developing.
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The second realisation is that we are dealing with part of a hugeworldwidetrendof changes in the pattern of employment and in the nature of work.
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Therefore, it does seem that there is aworldwidetrendtowards establishing oil refining and petrochemical industries in the countries which are producers of oil.
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This is aworldwidetrend.
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It is part of aworldwidetrend.
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Government policies can make a rise in our exports rather bigger or a decline rather smaller than it otherwise would have been, but they cannot reverse aworldwidetrend.
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This followed aworldwidetrendto divest from developing countries that year.
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Community treatment laws have generally followed theworldwidetrendof community treatment.
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Theworldwidetrendis now moving from domestic outsourcing to overseas outsourcing into countries that have a comparative advantage in labour-intensive business activities.
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