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mark-up

mark-up is the alternative spelling of markup.

Meaning of markup

Noun

markup (countable and uncountable, plural markups)

  1. 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. An increase in price.
    • There will be a markup on those products next week; better buy them now.
  3. 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.1996, Bebo White, HTML and the Art of Authoring for the World Wide Web, Springer, →ISBN, page 25
  4. (US) The process by which proposed legislation is debated and amended.

Forms of mark-up

pluralmark-ups

Origin of mark-up

Deverbal from mark up.

Questions about mark-up

What is mark-up the alternative spelling of?
Mark-up is the alternative spelling of markup.

Words near mark-up in the dictionary

  1. mark'd
  2. mark-making
  3. mark-to-market
  4. mark-to-markets
  5. mark-to-model
  6. mark-up
  7. mark-ups
  8. mark-white
  9. marka
  10. Markab
  11. markability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mark-up (page history and authors); markup (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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