[{"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to process (used goods or waste material) so as to produce something that is often better than the original:Compare downcycle(def2) downcycle(def2).I upcycled a stained tablecloth into curtains."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to process goods or material so as to produce something that is often better than the original:Several new companies whose purpose is to upcycle have sprung up recently."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["Economics.a period or cycle during which business activity or profitability is at a high point:The whole industry has entered an upcycle."]}]