'defining trend' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is changing in a particular direction or has been set as a new norm. For example, "The rise of e-commerce is a defining trend in the consumer retail industry."
More companies and new parts of the industry will get on board as this becomes a defining trend in 2007.
A defining trend of the now subsiding Net stock frenzy involved deals in which Internet startups obtained business from companies related to them via share ownership and back-scratching deals.
This will be a defining trend for the next 18 months or so.
What $100,000 Will Buy Milton Pedraza, CEO of the Luxury Institute, a market research firm focusing on affluent consumers, says that a defining trend for the luxury traveler is finding the undiscovered destination.
There are many "mass themes" in the book, but seeing as the project brings us almost up to the present day, I asked Eijkelboom if he thought there was one defining trend that characterized our modern era.
There are many "mass themes" in the book, but seeing as the project brings us almost up to the present day, I asked Eijkelboom if he thought there was a defining trend that characterised our moden era.
Such relationship is very important for defining trends in the reservoir description.
Scientists have had a hard time reliably defining trends in the life cycles of tropical trees in central Borneo.
It's about defining trends among web startups and web services, and grouping them under some sort of umbrella term, the way that "Web 2.0" once did for the older lot.
Due to numerous model uncertainties, not the least of which are the plasma solutions themselves, our intent is to provide a scoping analysis, defining trends and suggesting further research needs.
Although the data are useful for defining trends in regional environmental quality and assessing compliance with environmental regulations, the scale and resolution may not be appropriate for estimating personal exposures in human studies (Nuckols et al. 2004).
