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Catering to the well-to-do
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upscale
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Word definitions for upscale in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an upscale restaurant American English (= where richer people go ) ▪ It's interesting that rabbit has become so popular at upscale restaurants. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ an upscale department store EXAMPLES ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1966, "at the higher end of a scale, superior," a commercial word, from up (adv.) + scale (v.3).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. appropriate for people with good incomes; "an upscale neighborhood"; "an upscale motel"
Usage examples of upscale.
Yes, we have no bananas When a department store was advertising its food department, the owners wanted to attract an upscale, gourmet-oriented clientele.
The Fleet Center had replaced the old Garden, and I could tell that the joint was trying to go along with the upscale clientele, because there was a bowl of cashews on the bar.
He went quickly to the other bedroom where he slept, and where Goldilocks sat in her upscale whelping box.
Thibodeaux considered the Hurican an upscale blues club because of the perfectly tuned piano he owned.
Six blocks from her pawnshop, a brand-new Safeway store paved the way for a new upscale neighborhood.
If she went up to the tourist levels, she could walk into an upscale restaurant, sit down to a pricy dinner of Pasta Alfredo, with fresh vegetables from these tubes, and aged Parmigiana, made from soy beans that grew here somewhere.
In many malls, upscale stores are clustered together so the affluent shopper can drift from one to the other, looking not just for the good life but for the better life.
Empty now, the parking lot was once filled with very expensive luxury cars and SUVs, owned by the patrons of the upscale billiards parlor, Nine Balls.
State assault-bit, was disastrously involved with one Pamela Hoffman-Jeep, his first girl ever with a hyphen, a sort of upscale but directionless and not very healthy and pale and incredibly passive Danvers girl that worked in Purchasing for a hospital-supply co.
I learned that lesson long ago the hard way, when I was an upscale defense attorney with an infatuation for the civil litigator down the hall.
The two were meeting for lunch, as they did every month or so, at Patroon, an upscale, beef-and-claret restaurant on East Forty-seventh Street.
It was an upscale, trendoid kind of place, and I wondered how big that stipend was.
The shorter one looked like an upscale Chicana, black hair and brown skin, the whole package wrapped in expensive shorts and a halter top that looked like it was under too much stress.
After they finally decided to have the birthday luncheon at an upscale soul-food place called Once Upon A Chitlin, the question arose, who was going to ask her?
Standard upscale apartment manshon, tan ferroconcrete, new and spiffy-looking.