trender

Something which trends (has a tendency to go) in a certain way.

Noun

  1. Something which trends (has a tendency to go) in a certain way.
    • The computer can ferret out slow-movers, down-trenders, and nonstandards, which leads to simplification and higher turnover. - 1965, National Industrial Conference Board, Emerging trends in marketing: a symposium:
    • The other functions which have significant trends (accounting for 93.8 percent of total unified budget outlays at the mean) total 17.6 percent of potential GNP. Measured at the means, there were more dollars involved in...
    • LOW NOISE, TIGHT TRENDERS The stocks listed in exhibit 7.12 are "tight trenders" — they post excellent upside performance relative to their standard error, or the volatility incurred in achieving this ... - 1997, Bernie...
  2. Someone who is trendy, who sets or follows trends.
    • I also saw, or thought I saw, a very similar clash of assumptions, hypotheses and explanatory styles between the tenets of the old orthodoxy (a mixture of behaviourism, structuralism, cultural relativism,...

Origin

From trend (“tendency; fad”) + -er.

Forms

trenders

Derived

transtrender

Noun UK, dialectal

  1. One who cleans the filth from wool.

Origin

From trend (“clean wool”) + -er.

Forms

trenders