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Definition: Upmarket |
UpmarketAdjective1. Designed for high-income consumers; "he turned up in well-cut clothes...and upmarket felt hats"- New Yorker. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Antonym: downmarket (adj). (additional references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The advice to most of them is to upmarket, and not try to compete with the multiples. (references) | |
Premium beers are packaged in smart, long-necked bottles and designed to be imbibed in upmarket establishments. (references) | ||
It is vital to do so however, because this is a highly profitable area. For example, when air conditioning was only seen in upmarket cars, sunroofs were very popular. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Upmarket" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 78.05% of the time. "Upmarket" is used about 123 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 78.05% | 96 | 33,456 |
| Adverb (general) | 21.14% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.81% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 123 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "upmarket": upmarket-area. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
furniture upmarket | 7 |
corsetry upmarket | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "upmarket"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | рост рынка. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "upmarket" (pronounced u"pmÄ'rkut) |
| 6 | -m Ä' r k u t | aftermarket, hypermarket, Newmarket. |
| 5 | -Ä' r k u t | patriarchate. |
| 4 | -r k u t | market, premarket, remarket. |
| 3 | -k u t | advocate, affricate, basket, Becket, biscuit, blanket, breadbasket, brisket, bucket, casket, certificate, circuit, cricket, delicate, docket, duplicate, etiquette, gasket, indelicate, intricate, jacket, junket, microcircuit, musket, packet, picket, pickpocket, pocket, racket, racquet, rocket, silicate, skyrocket, socket, sprocket, straitjacket, syndicate, thicket, ticket, tourniquet, trinket, triplicate, tunicate, wastebasket, wicket. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-k-m-p-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: tempura. | |
-2 letters: makeup, market, markup, mature, takeup, tamper, uprate, uptake, uptear. | |
-3 letters: apter, armet, erupt, kaput, kempt, kraut, kurta, maker, mater, muter, pareu, pater, peart, prate, pruta, ramet, remap, taker, tamer, taper, taupe, tramp, trump, urate. | |
-4 letters: aper, arum, kame, kart, kemp, kept, make, mare, mark, mart, mate, maut, meat, merk, meta, mura, mure. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-k-m-p-r-t-u" | |
+3 letters: supermarket. | |
+4 letters: supermarkets. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 70 6D 61 72 6B 65 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- .--. -- .- .-. -.- . - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01110000 01101101 01100001 01110010 01101011 01100101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U p m a r k e t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 0070 006D 0061 0072 006B 0065 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5582796784777186 |
| 1. Definition 2. Quotations: Non-fiction 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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