markup
Americannoun
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markups
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Commerce.
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the amount added by a seller to the cost of a commodity to cover expenses and profit in fixing the selling price.
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the difference between the cost price and the selling price, computed as a percentage of either the selling price or the cost price.
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an increase in price, as of a commodity.
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the amount by which a price is increased.
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the putting of a legislative bill into final form.
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detailed instructions, usually written on a manuscript to be typeset, concerning style of type, makeup of pages, and the like.
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Digital Technology. detailed instructions indicating the format, style, or structure for an electronic document or web page.
verb (used with object)
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of markup
First recorded in 1915–20; noun use of verb phrase mark up
Vocabulary lists containing markup
Ratios and Proportional Relationships
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That guaranteed the teams with revenue, with brokers benefiting from a markup for popular games but taking the risk that tickets to less popular games would sell at a loss, or not at all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
The U.S. will reportedly get 55 percent of the deal’s effective output, including an ownership stake and rights to buy oil at cost—meaning priced according to the cost of producing it plus a set markup.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026
With the newly imposed tariffs, a normal markup would bring the price of that pillow to somewhere between $86 and $90, Osgood told the BBC.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
He has already moved on from assailing the frontier labs to milking them by selling them compute at a steep markup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The vendors were charging him a crazy markup.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
High growth rates persist, even after excluding the sizable boosts to reported net income of several hyperscalers coming from markups to private investments in companies like Anthropic.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Federal prosecutors said Raymond John Pirrello, Jr., Joseph Passalaqua and Robert Cassino lied to investors about hidden markups and fees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
That’s before taxes, fees and additional markups if tickets end up on the secondary market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
In their grievance letter, the detainees called the markups an unacceptable business practice with no apparent limit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
As we stared at the markups on the wall, admiring the work of some of our contemporaries, Shea reached over his shoulder, pulled the backpack in front of him, and slowly unzipped it.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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