Markup

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The percentage or amount by which a seller hikes up his buy-in price when determining his selling price. countable, uncountable

    "You don’t make much money selling gas because the markup is so low."

  2. 2
    detailed stylistic instructions for typesetting something that is to be printed; manual markup is usually written on the copy (e.g. underlining words that are to be set in italics) wordnet
  3. 3
    An increase in price. countable, uncountable

    "There will be a markup on those products next week; better buy them now."

  4. 4
    the amount added to the cost to determine the asking price wordnet
  5. 5
    The notation that is used to indicate the meaning of the elements in an electronic document, or to dictate how text should be displayed. countable, uncountable

    "For example, a filename of “home.html” would be appropriate for an ASCII/text file containing HTML markup."

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  1. 6
    The process by which proposed legislation is debated and amended. US, countable, uncountable

Etymology

Deverbal from mark up.

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