Definition of "minitrend" []

• A small, minor trend. (noun)

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• "Who knew that when Bryan Burrough fingered CNBC for helping kill off Bear Stearns Cos., he was starting a minitrend?"
• "There's a minitrend there, but it's very, very early."
• ""We seem to have a minitrend here and I think it will continue because the marginal buyers of a lot of these kind of deals, these highly levered LBO deals, have basically pulled back substantially," said Margie Patel, portfolio manager at Evergreen Investments."