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trade up
verb
- intr, adverb to sell a small or relatively inexpensive house, car, etc, and replace it with a larger or more expensive one
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Idioms and Phrases
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Example Sentences
He possesses several ships which trade up and down the river.
Wharves were built, and numerous barges plied their trade up and down the stream.
Now that man was a merchant, and used to trade up and down the coast even as far as Maskat.
I was in the fruit trade up in the Levant there, and such scoundrels as these Greek fellows I never met in my life.
She had conducted the place on a one-horse scale, but Ben ran the trade up to a hundred dollars a day.
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