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MARK-UP

Specialty Definition: MARK-UP

DomainDefinition

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.

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Crosswords: MARK-UP

Specialty definitions using "MARK-UP": director, merchandise, Document Type DefinitionEQUIPMENT MONITOR, PHOTOTYPESETTINGMANAGER, MERCHANDISESGML Tagger. (references)

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Modern Usage: MARK-UP

DomainUsage

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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Commercial Usage: MARK-UP

DomainTitle

Books

  • Mark-Up Clerk, Clerk-Typist, Clerk-Stenographer (reference)

  • Mark-Up Clerk: United States Postal Service (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: MARK-UP

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: MARK-UP

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%9334,067

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: MARK-UP

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

   

Portuguese

  

margem de venda (trade profit margin), reconhecimento da mais-valia potencial (marking up, markup, revaluation, write up), reavaliação (reappraisal, reassessment, re-evaluation). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

señalamiento (markup), información señalizadora (markup). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

påprickning (markup), omvärdering (reapprasial, revaluation), kodning (coding), bruttovinstprocent (trade profit margin), beredning (dressing, manufacture). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: MARK-UP

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.

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INDEX

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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