upmarket
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upmarket (comparative more upmarket, superlative most upmarket)
- (economics) Designed for customers with a high income.
- 2017 February 20, Paul Mason, “Climate scepticism is a far-right badge of honour – even in sweltering Australia”, in the Guardian[1]:
- Temperatures in the western suburbs of Sydney, far from the upmarket beachside glamour, reached 47C (117F) last week, topping the 44C I experienced there the week before. For reference, if it reached 47C in the middle of the Sahara desert, that would be an unusually hot day.
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- Towards the more expensive end of the market.
- The hotel seems to have gone upmarket.
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[edit]upmarket (third-person singular simple present upmarkets, present participle upmarketing, simple past and past participle upmarketed)
- (transitive) To render or become upmarket.
- 1992, Elizabeth Wilson, The Sphinx in the City, page 159:
- […] their flats and shops are upmarketed or pulled down to be replaced by hotels, offices and a privately owned park.