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Meaning of "mark-up" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MARK-UP

mark-up play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MARK-UP

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Mark-Up is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb mark-up in English.

WHAT DOES MARK-UP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of mark-up in the English dictionary

The first definition of mark-up in the dictionary is a percentage or amount added to the cost of a commodity to provide the seller with a profit and to cover overheads, costs, etc. Other definition of mark-up is an increase in the price of a commodity. Mark-Up is also the amount of this increase.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO MARK-UP

PRESENT

Present
I mark-up
you mark-up
he/she/it mark-ups
we mark-up
you mark-up
they mark-up
Present continuous
I am mark-uping
you are mark-uping
he/she/it is mark-uping
we are mark-uping
you are mark-uping
they are mark-uping
Present perfect
I have mark-uped
you have mark-uped
he/she/it has mark-uped
we have mark-uped
you have mark-uped
they have mark-uped
Present perfect continuous
I have been mark-uping
you have been mark-uping
he/she/it has been mark-uping
we have been mark-uping
you have been mark-uping
they have been mark-uping
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I mark-uped
you mark-uped
he/she/it mark-uped
we mark-uped
you mark-uped
they mark-uped
Past continuous
I was mark-uping
you were mark-uping
he/she/it was mark-uping
we were mark-uping
you were mark-uping
they were mark-uping
Past perfect
I had mark-uped
you had mark-uped
he/she/it had mark-uped
we had mark-uped
you had mark-uped
they had mark-uped
Past perfect continuous
I had been mark-uping
you had been mark-uping
he/she/it had been mark-uping
we had been mark-uping
you had been mark-uping
they had been mark-uping
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will mark-up
you will mark-up
he/she/it will mark-up
we will mark-up
you will mark-up
they will mark-up
Future continuous
I will be mark-uping
you will be mark-uping
he/she/it will be mark-uping
we will be mark-uping
you will be mark-uping
they will be mark-uping
Future perfect
I will have mark-uped
you will have mark-uped
he/she/it will have mark-uped
we will have mark-uped
you will have mark-uped
they will have mark-uped
Future perfect continuous
I will have been mark-uping
you will have been mark-uping
he/she/it will have been mark-uping
we will have been mark-uping
you will have been mark-uping
they will have been mark-uping
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would mark-up
you would mark-up
he/she/it would mark-up
we would mark-up
you would mark-up
they would mark-up
Conditional continuous
I would be mark-uping
you would be mark-uping
he/she/it would be mark-uping
we would be mark-uping
you would be mark-uping
they would be mark-uping
Conditional perfect
I would have mark-up
you would have mark-up
he/she/it would have mark-up
we would have mark-up
you would have mark-up
they would have mark-up
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been mark-uping
you would have been mark-uping
he/she/it would have been mark-uping
we would have been mark-uping
you would have been mark-uping
they would have been mark-uping
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you mark-up
we let´s mark-up
you mark-up
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to mark-up
Past participle
mark-uped
Present Participle
mark-uping
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MARK-UP

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Mark Antony
mark reader
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mark scanner
mark scanning
mark time
mark-to-market
marka
markdown
marked
markedly
markedness
marker
marker buoy
marker pen
market
market abuse
market analysis
market cross

WORDS THAT END LIKE MARK-UP

break-up
crack-up
crystal pick-up
fuck-up
hook-up
jack-up
kick-up
knock-up
lock-up
look-up
magnetic pick-up
mock-up
muck-up
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satellite link-up
shook-up
stack-up
stick-up
stuck-up
walk-up

Synonyms and antonyms of mark-up in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «mark-up» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MARK-UP

Find out the translation of mark-up to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of mark-up from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «mark-up» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

标记了
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mark-up
570 millions of speakers

English

mark-up
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मार्क अप
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

علامة المتابعة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

наценка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mark-up
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মার্কআপ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

majoration
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mark-up
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Handelsspanne
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

マークアップ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

마크 업
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tandha-up
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lên giá vật gì
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மார்க்-அப்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मार्क-अप
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

mark-up
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

rialzo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dopłata
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

націнка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mark - up
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

mark- up
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

mark-up
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pålägg
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

påslag
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of mark-up

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MARK-UP»

The term «mark-up» is quite widely used and occupies the 43.535 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MARK-UP» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about mark-up

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QUOTES WITH «MARK-UP»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word mark-up.
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Michael K. Powell
You can sell nothing for a mark-up for a while, but only until something starts eating away at it. Now I can go home and click on Yahoo, call my sister and talk over a microphone for free.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MARK-UP»

Discover the use of mark-up in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mark-up and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Geography Mark-Up Language: Foundation for the Geo-Web
Starting from the basic concepts, this book works through all the important topics in both GML 2.0 and GML 3.0, with illustrations and worked examples to demonstrate its use.
Mr Ron Lake, David Burggraf, Milan Trninic, 2004
2
Spoken English on computer: transcription, mark-up, and ...
This book has evolved from a Workshop on Computerized Speech Corpora, held at Lancaster University in 1993.
Geoffrey N. Leech, Greg Myers, Jenny Thomas, 1995
3
Handbook of Islamic Banking
For example, in a murabaha contract the mark-up is determined by adding the risk premium to the benchmark rate (usually the LIBOR). The nature of a murabaha is such that the mark-up is fixed for the duration of the contract. Consequently ...
Kabir Hassan, Mervyn Lewis, 2007
4
Handbook of International Banking
Banks in Pakistan rely heavily on mark-up (decreasing marginally from 86.7 per cent in 1984 to 80.2 per cent in 1995), mainly in commodity and trading operations (Dar, 1 996, p. 182)." There are some countries where PLS is common and ...
A. W. Mullineux, Victor Murinde, 2003
5
Construction Project Management: Theory and Practice
8.3 DETERMINATION OF OPTIMUM MARK-UP LEVEL A step-by-step process of optimum mark-up determination is delineated below: 1 . To start with, a mark-up percent varying usually between 1 per cent and 20 per cent of total cost TC is ...
Jha Kumar Neeraj, Kumar Neeraj Jha, 2011
6
The Small Business Survival Handbook
Mark-ups In business a mark-up is the term given to how much a business adds onto a product's cost price in order to get to a selling price. For example, if the cost price is R12,00 and the mark-up is R8,00, then the selling price is R20,00.
Ian Juul, 2006
7
Islamic Banking and Interest: A Study of the Prohibition of ...
Since there are no legal restrictions on the amount of profit one can make from a particular sale, Islamic banks are theoretically free to charge whatever mark-up they can in a murabaha contract. These banks tend to interpret riba as occurring  ...
Abdullah Saeed, 1996
8
Excel HSC Business Studies
Flexible mark-up pricing. A more common practice is to use full costs to establish a level below which prices will not be allowed to fall, and above that flexible mark -ups can be added. Mark-ups can be adjusted to reflect changes in demand or ...
Louise Fleming, 2004
9
Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences
Mark-up,. post-Keynesian. literature. Eichner, Alfred, The Megacorp and Oligopoly: Micro Foundations of Macro Dynamics, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976 Harcourt, G.C. and Peter Kenyon, “Pricing and the ...
Jonathan Michie, 2014
10
Managerial Accounting in the Hospitality Industry
Mark-up and gross profit The percentage added to food or drink cost for determining selling price is known sometimes as mark-up. The figure added is gross profit and becomes gross profit percentage when it is related to the selling price.
Peter James Harris, Peter A. Hazzard, 1992

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MARK-UP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term mark-up is used in the context of the following news items.
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Senate panel advances $95B tax break package
Hatch sounded skeptical after Tuesday's mark-up that the package of tax breaks could be added to the Senate's highway bill. Business groups ... «The Hill, Jul 15»
2
Can Jet.com's Wall Street programmers outwit Amazon and Walmart?
Jet's prices start low, Lore says, because the company is making all its profit from the annual membership fees, not from the usual mark-up on ... «Yahoo Finance, Jul 15»
3
Solar industry steams as tax credits dry up
Still, senators filed a clutch of amendments relating to the solar credit ahead of the Tuesday mark-up. One from Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, ... «Washington Examiner, Jul 15»
4
Strong And Under The Radar Today: First Horizon National (FHN)
Market technicians refer to such stocks as being in an accumulation phase before a mark-up and peak. Traders and hedge funds have ... «TheStreet.com, Jul 15»
5
Strong And Under The Radar: Bona Film Group (BONA)
Market technicians refer to such stocks as being in an accumulation phase before a mark-up and peak. Traders and hedge funds have ... «TheStreet.com, Jul 15»
6
Drag-racing champ 'headed $1.2m drug ring'
Stevens demanded a return of $9 a pill and his associate Martin Kirkby earned $600,000 from taking a 50 cents mark-up. The racing enthusiast ... «9news.com.au, Jul 15»
7
IKEA disruptor Brosa scores $2 million funding from AirTree Ventures
On Brosa, customers can view a wider and more unique range of furniture as well as buying it without the retail mark-up. It was first launched in ... «The Australian Financial Review, Jul 15»
8
Chennai-based MeetUrPro takes care of all legal professional …
Hence, MeetUrPro does not charge any fee from the professional. We have a small mark-up over the fee charged by the professional, which we ... «YourStory.com, Jul 15»
9
Immigration Reform News July 21, 1015, Sanctuary City Funding
During the mark-up (amendment process), the Committee approved two amendments that place restrictions on sanctuary cities. First, the ... «Right Side News, Jul 15»
10
How to live the high life for less
Most restaurants put a huge mark-up on beverages, so taking your own can save a lot. Don't be shy. Ask about group deals when going out ... «Women24, Jul 15»

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