mark-up
mark-up — noun
1. the extra amount or percentage a seller adds above cost before setting the final
the extra amount or percentage a seller adds above cost before setting the final price.
The cafe puts a twenty-five percent mark-up on bottled juice from Japan.
pattern: a mark-up on + product
A tiny mark-up on each badge covered the club's printing costs.
Parents were shocked by the mark-up on uniforms at the school shop.
The owner keeps the mark-up low so local families can still buy fruit.
- discount
reduces the selling price instead of adding to it
文法句型
a mark-up on + product
a mark-up of + amount/percentage
keep the mark-up + high/low
用法筆記
Often appears with 'on' to name the product and with a number or percentage to show size. Distinguish from verb sense 1: this sense names the extra amount itself, while the verb names the act of adding it.
常見錯誤
mark-up — verb
1. to put a higher selling price on something, usually so more profit is made.
to put a higher selling price on something, usually so more profit is made.
Before the holiday weekend, several hotels marked up their rooms by fifteen percent.
pattern: mark up + product + by + percentage
The corner shop marked up bottled water after the concert crowd arrived.
Our supplier warned us not to mark up school uniforms too heavily.
The chain marked up imported cheese to cover higher shipping costs.
To boost profits, the seller marked up every phone case near the till.
文法句型
mark up + product
mark up + product + by + amount/percentage
mark up + product + to + price
用法筆記
Usually takes the goods being sold as its object and often appears with a percentage or amount. Distinguish from phrasal verb 2 under this entry: sense 1 is about pricing goods, while that phrase sense is about writing correction marks on a text.