up-market
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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According to the report, Shopify is pushing deeper in mid-sized businesses compared with small merchants, “reinforcing the up-market and unified commerce narrative.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
The group opened its first club in London in 1995, and now has 46 Soho Houses in Europe, North America and Asia, as well a string of other up-market hospitality businesses.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2025
They had two different ideas of what middle class should look like, and she had to up-market the set to match what the director was looking for.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
Akeroyd will join Burberry next April, succeeding Marco Gobbetti, who announced his departure in June, midway into a multi-year turnaround to take the brand further up-market.
From Reuters ● Nov. 11, 2021
His songs were meant to sound like up-market folk songs: immediately memorable, lyrically easily understandable and relatively predictable in shape.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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