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| Domain | Definition |
Business | The margin between sales and purchase prices in a trading business, usually expressed as percentage of the sales price. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The substitution of the book value of an asset by a more realistic value. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Computing | Information that is added to the data content of a virtual document as an aid to describing or processing it. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: MARK-UP |
| Specialty definitions using "MARK-UP": director, merchandise, Document Type Definition ♦ EQUIPMENT MONITOR, PHOTOTYPESETTING ♦ MANAGER, MERCHANDISE ♦ SGML Tagger. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Not only that, but you also sold plutonium to the Iraqis with no mark-up! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The wholesaler mark-up limit has been at the same level (14.3%) for some years. (references) | |
The price mark-up ranges between 25 and 30 percent in the market of product category covered in this study. (references) | ||
The mark-up charged by the distributors is generally 50 percent or more, resulting in higher prices to the final consumer. (references) | ||
Economic History | Guinea | The average mark-up is 25%. (references) |
Tanzania | Mark-up added to cost is the best pricing method for this market. (references) | |
Tanzania | The size of mark-up should be determined by the price of competitors and available substitutes. (references) | |
Trade | Pakistan | If the borrower is unable to pay when the loan falls due, the loan can be "rolled over", by extending a new loan for the amount of the original loan plus the previously agreed mark-up amount. (references) |
Pakistan | Under the mark-up system, the lending institution in effect purchases a share of the borrower's assets, with an agreement to sell back the assets when the loan falls due, at a fixed price, including the "mark up". (references) | |
Pakistan | In December 1999, the Supreme Court ruled that interest (riba) is repugnant to Islam, struck down a number of laws and ordered that Pakistan is to implement an interest-free society by June 30, 2001. According to this judgement, the profit and loss and the mark-up systems are also not in accordance with the Islamic system of interest-free banking. (references) | |
Travel | Cote D'ivoire | The most popular frauds involve money from a deposed political leader, smuggled diamonds, an unclaimed debt, gold bars, or imported goods with an absurd mark-up. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "MARK-UP" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MARK-UP" is used about 93 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 93 | 34,067 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "MARK-UP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | prisforhøjelse (marking up, markup, revaluation, write up), opskrivning (marking up, markup, revaluation, write up), opmærkning (markup), omvurdering af aktiver (marking up, markup, revaluation, write up), kodning (coding, encoding, markup, to encode), formattering (markup), bruttoavanceprocent (banker's markup, banker's spread, gross earnings margin, gross margin, trade profit margin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | markup (markup), markering (carriageway marking, delineator, flag, identification marking, mark, marking, markup, road marking, spotting, timber marking, tree marking), opwaardering (appreciation, change to a higher contribution class, marking up, markup, revaluation, upgrading, write up), opmaak (appearance, format, markup), herwaardering (marking up, markup, revaluation, write up), handelsmarge (gross profit, trade profit margin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | voittomarginaali (trade profit margin), uudelleen arvottaminen (marking up, markup, revaluation, write up), kooditus (coding, markup), hinnankorotus (marking up, markup, revaluation, write up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | taux de marque (trade profit margin), surmasque, réajustement la hausse (marking up, markup), réévaluation (marking up, markup), hausse (bull market), code (markup). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Preisanpassung (marking up, markup, revaluation, write up), Neubewertung (reappraisal), Handelsspanne (mark up, trade margin), Auszeichnung (accolade, award, awarding, décor, decoration, distinction, honor, honoring, honour, honouring, labeling, mark up, marking, pricing, prize, renown, ticket), Aufwertung (appreciation, improvement, increase in value, revaluation, upgrading, valorization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σημάδεμα (markup), σήμανση (carriageway marking, delineator, labeling, labelling, mark, marking, markup, navigation mark, road marking, seamark, signage, signposting, signs, tattooing, traffic signing, traffic signs, visual aid, visual aid to navigatio), εμπορικό περιθώριο (margin of profit, mark up, marketing margin, markup, profit margin, trade margin, trade profit margin, trading margin), αναπροσαρμογή (readjustment), ανατίμηση (revaluation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | marcatura (marking), rivalutazione (revaluation), rialzo (bull, elevation, increase, mark up, rise, upturn), note di processazione (markup), note (markup), coefficiente di maggiorazione (trade profit margin), aumento (addition, advance, aggrandisement, aggrandizement, augmentation, boom, boost, enhancement, enlargement, gain, growing, increase, raise, raising, rise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 値増し (price hike), 値上' (price hike), 値上 (price hike). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ねまし (price hike), ねあ' (price hike). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ark-upmay margem de venda (trade profit margin), reconhecimento da mais-valia potencial (marking up, markup, revaluation, write up), reavaliação (reappraisal, reassessment, re-evaluation). (various references) señalamiento (markup), información señalizadora (markup). (various references) påprickning (markup), omvärdering (reapprasial, revaluation), kodning (coding), bruttovinstprocent (trade profit margin), beredning (dressing, manufacture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: markup. | |
| Words within the letters "a-k-m-p-r-u" | |
-2 letters: arum, mark, mura, murk, park, pram, prau, puma, ramp, rump. | |
-3 letters: amp, amu, ark, arm, auk, map, mar, pam, par, pur, ram, rap, rum, ump. | |
-4 letters: am, ar, ka, ma, mu, pa, um, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-k-m-p-r-u" | |
+1 letter: markups, pugmark. | |
+2 letters: pugmarks, upmarket. | |
+5 letters: supermarket. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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