Crossword clues for markup
markup
The Collaborative International Dictionary
markup \markup\ n.
(Commerce) The amount added to the cost to determine the asking price.
(printing) Instructions for the typesetter that are written on the copy (e.g. underlining words that are to be set in italics).
(Legislation) Changes in proposed legislation drafted in conference, as contrasted with changes resulting from the amendment process.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also mark up, mark-up, "amount added by a retailer to cover overhead and provide profit," 1899; see mark (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The notation that is used to indicate how text should be displayed. 2 The percentage or amount by which a seller hike up his buy-in price when determining his selling price. 3 An increase in price.
WordNet
n. the amount added to the cost to determine the asking price
detailed stylistic instructions for typesetting something that is to be printed; manual markup is usually written on the copy (e.g. underlining words that are to be set in italics)
Wikipedia
Markup is the difference between the cost of a good or service and its selling price. A markup is added onto the total cost incurred by the producer of a good or service in order to cover the costs of doing business and create a profit. The total cost reflects the total amount of both fixed and variable expenses to produce and distribute a product. Markup can be expressed as a fixed amount or as a percentage of the total cost or selling price. Retail markup is commonly calculated as the difference between wholesale price and retail price, as a percentage of wholesale. Other methods are also used.
Markup can refer to:
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Markup language, a notation used to annotate a document's content to give information regarding the structure of the text or instructions for how it is to be displayed.
- "Markup business", a kind of service in ICT context, to markup refers to a service of "marking-up" a free text into a marked one, for a specific markup language.
- Markup (business) a term in Economy, for the increase in the price of goods to create a profit margin for a business
- Markup (legislation), a legislative session held to amend bills
Markup (or mark-up) is the process by which a U.S. congressional committee or state legislative session debates, amends, and rewrites proposed legislation.
Usage examples of "markup".
Jules Verne This version has been stripped of markup, markup in version 10.
They were so accustomed to getting their 45 percent markup, they never let go.
Now, if we can get within 5 percent of the same price and quality, we take a smaller markup and go with the American product.
You can save about seventy percent markup if you know how to go about it.
When we arrived in these little towns offering low prices every day, satisfaction guaranteed, and hours that were realistic for the way people wanted to shop, we passed right by that old variety store competition, with its 45 percent markups, limited selection, and limited hours.
Grocery markups in Beverly Hills, my mother had warned me, were absurd.
They let the freelancers do the scut work, and rake a percentage off the top—plus selling information, repairs and stuff, all at fantastic markups.
With the advent of sophisticated GUI's (Graphic UserInterfaces) and VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language) - these maps may well show us the way to a more colourful and user-friendly future.
Everything will be based on the industry-standard Extensible Markup Language (XML), which, unlike the Web-pioneering HTML language, can present structured data (such as databases and spreadsheets) and is more similar to traditional software development languages.