markup

See also: mark-up and mark up

English

Alternative forms

• mark-up

Etymology

Deverbal from mark up.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑː(ɹ)k.ʌp/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

markup (countable and uncountable, plural markups)

1. The percentage or amount by which a seller hikes up his buy-in price when determining his selling price.

   You don’t make much money selling gas because the markup is so low.

2. An increase in price.

   There will be a markup on those products next week; better buy them now.

3. (computing) The notation that is used to indicate the meaning of the elements in an electronic document, or to dictate how text should be displayed.
   • 1996, Bebo White, HTML and the Art of Authoring for the World Wide Web, Springer, →ISBN, page 25:

     For example, a filename of “home.html” would be appropriate for an ASCII/text file containing HTML markup.

   • 2003, “Creative Commons GNU GPL”, in Creative Commons‎^[1], archived from the original on 2009-06-22:

     You can display the icon on any site you offer your software for download using the following markup […]

4. (US politics) The process by which proposed legislation is debated and amended.

Derived terms

• maintained markup
• markup language
• markup rate
• wiki markup

 

Related terms

• markdown
• mark up

Translations

percentage or amount added to buy-in price

• Bulgarian: надценка n (nadcenka) маржа (bg) n (marža)
• Dutch: marge (nl) f, verkoopsmarge f
• Finnish: marginaali (fi)
• French: marge (fr)
• German: Marge (de) f, Preisaufschlag m
• Hungarian: haszonkulcs (hu), árrés (hu)
• Polish: marża (pl) f
• Romanian: adaos comercial
• Russian: наце́нка (ru) f (nacénka), надба́вка (ru) f (nadbávka), ма́ржа (ru) f (márža)
• Spanish: margen (es) m
• Tagalog: patong

increase in price

• Dutch: prijsstijging (nl) f
• Finnish: korotus (fi), hinnankorotus
• French: majoration (fr) f
• German: Aufschlag (de) m
• Hungarian: áremelkedés (hu), áremelés (hu)
• Maori: whakapikinga utu
• Polish: marża (pl) f, narzut m
• Romanian: scumpire (ro)
• Russian: ма́ржа (ru) f (márža)
• Tagalog: patong, pagpapatong
• Turkish: zam (tr)

notation used to indicate how text should be displayed

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 標記／标记 (zh) (biāojì)

• Czech: značkování n
• Danish: opmærkning c
• Dutch: opmaak (nl) m
• Finnish: merkkaus
• French: balise (fr), balisage (fr) m
• German: Auszeichnung (de) f
• Hungarian: formázásjelölés, szedési/nyomdai utasítás
• Japanese: マークアップ (mākuappu)
• Polish: adiustacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: marcação (pt)
• Russian: разме́тка (ru) f (razmétka)