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up-sell

British  

verb

  1. to attempt to sell a customer (additional or more expensive goods or services)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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There’s up-sell green screen photo ops, short films and demonstrations of motion-capture technology.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2024

A large portion of these entrepreneurs were coffin makers who saw the opportunity to up-sell their services by preserving and shipping bodies.

From Slate • Oct. 31, 2022

It was nothing more than an up-sell, he said, laden with false promises.

From Washington Post • Jul. 24, 2020

There are no Amazons or Googles in his 23rd century to harvest the data we generate so advertisers can up-sell us into further debt.

From The Guardian • Dec. 23, 2019

Companies also push agents to up-sell in many types of interactions with customers, the report said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2016

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