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UK
/mˈɑːkʌp/
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[ US /ˈmɑɹˌkəp/ ]
[ US /ˈmɑɹˌkəp/ ]
NOUN
- detailed stylistic instructions for typesetting something that is to be printed; manual markup is usually written on the copy (e.g. underlining words that are to be set in italics)
- the amount added to the cost to determine the asking price
How To Use markup In A Sentence
- Lord Grade could estimate the cost of your clothes at a glance (adding 50\% for overheads and a 50\% markup), having been in the schmutter business before deciding that there was a brighter future dancing the Charleston. The Guardian World News
- I haven't spoken to my ex-fianc é e since the day she left me," says Mr. Opperman, whose site, IDoNowIDont.com, generated $1 million in sales last year by enabling consumers to buy and sell diamond rings and other jewelry on the Web, cutting out the middlemen and their markups. Unlucky in Love? Turning a Break-up Into a Business
- I would be buying them now, even at a $100 or higher markup, to support them.
- Why do you think markups in the retail business are kept quiet?
- Others are rolling out must-have offerings that carry higher markups.
- Their dealer networks sell new vehicles at near zero markup.
- More modern markup languages, such as the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and XML, popularized more abstract structural markup such as books, chapters, sections, and so on.
- People use the term colloquially to mean that something sells for 3x its cost, but that isn’t what ‘markup’ means in business. Question of the Day: What’s Up With Restaurant Wine Prices? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
- Listing 1 shows the markup fragment used to create this stock ticker form in HTML.
- By applying a different CSS file to a markup document, we can drastically change any or all aspects of its design - the layout, typography, or color palette.
