up-market
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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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
“We are starting up-market, we are working our way down as quickly as we can — we are using their playbook almost verbatim,” Lee tells The Verge in an interview.
From The Verge • Jul. 29, 2021
Sarah Spiers, 18, Jane Rimmer, 23, and Ciara Glennon, 27, vanished without witnesses while making their way home from the city’s up-market Claremont nightlife precinct in 1996 and 1997.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2020
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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