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upmarket
Alternative clues for the word upmarket
Word definitions for upmarket in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. designed for high-income consumers; "he turned up in well-cut clothes...and upmarket felt hats"- New Yorker [ant: downmarket ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an upmarket image British English , an upscale image American English (= expensive and good quality ) ▪ The company is trying to promote an upmarket image. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ I was surprised when I saw ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. designed for customers with a high income adv. towards the more expensive end of the market
Usage examples of upmarket.
This upmarket foreign car had caused some resentment amongst Horner's FCO colleagues, as they were forced to drive inferior British models and assumed that the Honourable Horner had been exempted from this rule because he held a title.
A movie house, a bank, a couple of realtors, ice cream and pizza parlors, supermarkets, drugstores, bars, a half dozen greasy spoons, a couple of upmarket but still essentially tacky restaurants, a Lutheran church, a sheriff's office with a small jail facility for drunks to dry out in, two motels.
Eileen was a stripper of considerable abilities who, since moving in with Terry, had taken herself upmarket and now specialised in delivering personalised birthday messages dressed in her own version of a WPC's uniform.
Journalist Ekaterina Slocomb, who produced a short documentary on the general for Beltway, an upmarket tabnode, finds that idea hard to swallow.