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Pick up

Meaning in economics, with examples

phrasal verbCommon term

In economics, pick up means: To increase or improve after a slow or weak period, as when growth, demand, sales or inflation start to rise again.

In Turkish: hızlanmak, canlanmak, artmak

How it is used

Very common in economic news and analysts' comments, used without an object: growth picked up in the second quarter; inflation is picking up. The noun is pickup or pick-up: a pickup in demand. The opposite is slow down.

Example sentences

  1. Growth picked up in the second quarter as exports recovered.

  2. Economists expect demand to pick up once interest rates start to fall.

Common collocations

  • growth picks up
  • demand picks up
  • a pickup in
  • pick up pace
  • pick up speed
  • recoveryThe period after a recession or crisis when output, jobs and incomes start to grow again and move back towards their earlier level.
  • economic growthAn increase in the amount of goods and services an economy produces over time, usually measured as the percentage change in real GDP.
  • demandThe amount of a good or service that buyers are willing and able to purchase at each possible price during a given period.
  • downturnA period when economic activity, sales or prices fall or grow much more slowly; a general word that may or may not mean a full recession.

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