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Business English Vocabulary Guide

This document provides verbs and nouns to describe trends and the movement of data over time. It separates descriptors into categories for upward movement, downward movement, upward movement following a previous downward trend, leveling off, and no movement. Verbs like "increase", "rise", "fall", and "decline" as well as nouns like "growth", "drop", and "decline" are given as ways to discuss changes in direction and degree for quantitative data trends.

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Business English Vocabulary Guide

This document provides verbs and nouns to describe trends and the movement of data over time. It separates descriptors into categories for upward movement, downward movement, upward movement following a previous downward trend, leveling off, and no movement. Verbs like "increase", "rise", "fall", and "decline" as well as nouns like "growth", "drop", and "decline" are given as ways to discuss changes in direction and degree for quantitative data trends.

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DESCRIBING TRENDS

UPWARD MOVEMENT
VERBS NOUNS
(to) increase (an) increase
(to) rise (a) rise
(to) go up (an) upswing
(to) grow (a) growth
(to) progress (a) progression
(to) boom, (to) soar, (to) climb, (a) boom, (a) jump, (a) leap, (a)
(to) jump, (to) leap, (to) skyrocket, surge
(to) shoot up, (to) surge, (to) take
off
(to) reach a peak, (to) peak (a) peak
(to) reach an all-time high
DOWNWARD MOVEMENT
VERBS NOWS
(to) decrease (a) decrease
(a) reduction
(to) fall (off) (fall, fell, fallen) (a) fall
(to) drop (off) (a) drop
(to) suffer a drop
(to) go down (a) downswing
(to) decline (a) decline
(to) dip
(to) plunge, (to) plummet (a) plunge
(to) tumble, (to) take a tumble (a) tumble
(to) collapse (a) collapse
(to) slump (a) slump
UPWARD MOVEMENT FOLLOWING PREVIOUS DOWNWARD MOVEMENT
VERBS NOWS
(to) stage a comeback (a) comeback
(to) rebound
(to) recover/ (to) make a recovery (a) recovery
(to) rally (a) rally
LEVELLING-OFF
VERBS NOUNS
(to) bottom out
(to) stabilize
(to) level off/out, to flatten out (a) levelling-off
(to) stop falling/rising
(to) plateau/ (to) reach a plateau at (a) plateau
NO MOVEMENT
VERBS NOUNS
(to) remain
steady/stable/constant/unchanged

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DESCRIBING THE DEGREE AND SPEED OF CHANGE

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