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markup

  • /ˈmɑː(ɹ)k.ʌp/ UK

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Deverbal from mark up.

noun markups · mark-up

  1. countable, uncountable The percentage or amount by which a seller hikes up their buy-in price when determining their selling price. You don’t make much money selling gas because the markup is so low.
  2. countable, uncountable An increase in price. There will be a markup on those products next week; better buy them now.
  3. countable, uncountable The notation that is used to indicate the meaning of the elements in an electronic document, or to dictate how text should be displayed. For example, a filename of “home.html” would be appropriate for an ASCII/text file containing HTML markup.
  4. US, countable, uncountable The process by which proposed legislation is debated and amended.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: surcharge, trademark, label, revision, review, mark-up, top-up, maintained, bonus, supplement, marking, tagging, marked, flagged, tag, indicator

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noun percentage or amount added to buy-in price

Españolmargen, sobreprecio, recargo, margen lucroso
Françaismarge
DeutschMarge, Preisaufschlag, Handelsspanne
Românăadaos comercial
Русскийнаце́нка nacénka, надба́вка nadbávka, ма́ржа márža

noun increase in price

Françaismajoration
DeutschAufschlag
Românăscumpire
Русскийма́ржа márža

noun notation used to indicate how text should be displayed

Españolanotaciones
日本語マークアップ mākuappu
中文標記 /标记 biāojì
Portuguêsmarcação
Françaisbalise, balisage
DeutschAuszeichnung
Русскийразме́тка razmétka

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@misc{markup_2026,
  title = {markup},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/markup},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}