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upmarket
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
upmarket
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an upmarket imageBritish 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 her apartment - I'd have expected a lawyer to have something a little more upmarket.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An £800,000 loss at upmarket wallpaper group Osborne & Little left its shares unchanged at 66p.
▪ As it is, Siren is doing well with advertisers chasing young, upmarket spenders.
▪ Certainly it is much more than an upmarket beauty treatment, as some would have us believe.
▪ Forte is expected to convert the Sterling, its first hotel at Gatwick, to its upmarket Crest brand.
▪ He goes back to buy the upmarket, hand-made works of art.
▪ His first collaboration began when he was invited to invest in an upmarket Roux Brothers establishment.
Wiktionary
upmarket

a. designed for customers with a high income adv. towards the more expensive end of the market

WordNet
upmarket

adj. designed for high-income consumers; "he turned up in well-cut clothes...and upmarket felt hats"- New Yorker [ant: downmarket]

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.