trade up

verb

1. intr, adverb to sell a small or relatively inexpensive house, car, etc, and replace it with a larger or more expensive one

Idioms and Phrases

see under trade down .

Example Sentences

He possesses several ships which trade up and down the river.

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Wharves were built, and numerous barges plied their trade up and down the stream.

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Now that man was a merchant, and used to trade up and down the coast even as far as Maskat.

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I was in the fruit trade up in the Levant there, and such scoundrels as these Greek fellows I never met in my life.

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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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