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mark-up

nounC1neutral

Other forms: mark-ups

A mark-up is the amount added to the cost to make the selling price. A hundred per cent mark-up.

It is not the same as margin, which is the profit as a share of the price. A mark-up in a restaurant is largest on wine and smallest on the food.

Definitions of mark-up

  1. 1nounmark-upThe amount added to the cost to make the selling price.C1

    “The mark-up on the frames was four hundred per cent.”

mark-up is an amount.

Where it comes from

Deverbal from mark up.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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