trade up
(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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How to use trade up in a sentence
He possesses several ships which trade up and down the river.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers | Jules VerneWharves were built, and numerous barges plied their trade up and down the stream.
Evesham | Edmund H. NewNow that man was a merchant, and used to trade up and down the coast even as far as Maskat.
Black Tales for White Children | C. H. StigandI was in the fruit trade up in the Levant there, and such scoundrels as these Greek fellows I never met in my life.
A Day's Ride | Charles James LeverShe had conducted the place on a one-horse scale, but Ben ran the trade up to a hundred dollars a day.
The Life and Adventures of Ben Hogan, the Wickedest Man in the World | Benedict Hogan
Other Idioms and Phrases with trade up
see under trade down.
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