"downtick" meaning in English

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        "1": "en",
        "2": "down",
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      "expansion": "down + tick",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "down + tick",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "downticks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "downtick (plural downticks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Keith Lee Morris, Call it What You Want, page 53",
          "text": "There had been a downtick in April's enthusiasm for schoolwork — a sprinkling of Bs on her report card.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small decrease or downward change in something that has been steady or rising."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "decrease",
          "decrease"
        ],
        [
          "downward",
          "downward"
        ],
        [
          "change",
          "change"
        ]
      ]
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          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Finance",
          "orig": "en:Finance",
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            "Business",
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
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      "glosses": [
        "A stock market transaction or quote at a price below a preceding one."
      ],
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        [
          "finance",
          "finance#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "stock",
          "stock"
        ],
        [
          "market",
          "market"
        ],
        [
          "transaction",
          "transaction"
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          "quote",
          "quote"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(finance) A stock market transaction or quote at a price below a preceding one."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "finance"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "downtick"
}

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "uptick"
    }
  ],
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    "English compound terms",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "down",
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      },
      "expansion": "down + tick",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "down + tick",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "downticks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "downtick (plural downticks)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Keith Lee Morris, Call it What You Want, page 53",
          "text": "There had been a downtick in April's enthusiasm for schoolwork — a sprinkling of Bs on her report card.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small decrease or downward change in something that has been steady or rising."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "decrease",
          "decrease"
        ],
        [
          "downward",
          "downward"
        ],
        [
          "change",
          "change"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
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        "en:Finance"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A stock market transaction or quote at a price below a preceding one."
      ],
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          "finance#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "stock",
          "stock"
        ],
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          "market",
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        ],
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          "transaction",
          "transaction"
        ],
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          "quote",
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        "(finance) A stock market transaction or quote at a price below a preceding one."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business",
        "finance"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "downtick"
}