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单词 upmarket
释义
upmarket
adjective,adverb
mainly UK
uk
/ˌʌpˈmɑː.kɪt/us
/ˈʌp.mɑːr.kɪt/
(USusuallyupscale)
Upmarketgoodsandproductsare of very highqualityandintendedto beboughtbypeoplewho arequiterich:
（商品、产品）高档的，高级的；向高档，向高级消费市场
an upmarketbrandname高档品牌
Manygarmentexporterswanttomoveupmarket.很多服装出口商想打入高端市场。
Compare
downmarketadjectiveUKdisapproving
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Expensive & luxurious
  • champagne
  • costliness
  • delicacy
  • expensively
  • fancy
  • gold plate
  • graciousness
  • luxury goods
  • no expense is sparedidiom
  • opulent
  • precious
  • premium-rate
  • prestige
  • priceless
  • sumptuous
  • sumptuously
  • super-deluxe
  • super-expensive
  • swish
  • valuable
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(Definition ofupmarketfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

upmarket| Business English

upmarket
adjective
COMMERCEUK
uk
/ˌʌpˈmɑːkɪt/us
(USupscale)
used todescribeproductsandservicesthat are of a highqualitycomparedtoothers:
Thepricesof upmarkettouroperatorsare oftendiscountedat the lastminute.
He had aplantoturnthepropertiesinto upmarketretailcenterswithhigh-endtenants.
upmarket
adverb
UK
uk
/ˌʌpˈmɑːkɪt/us
(USupscale)
go/move upmarket
COMMERCE
to make a company'sproductsorserviceshigherinquality:
Newwineriesarecrowdinginto themarket,meaningthatexistingwinemakers have littlechoicebut totryandmovefurtherupmarket.
Going upmarket willsignificantlyreduceourcustomerbase.
(Definition ofupmarketfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofupmarket

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But it e could also be a case of moreupmarketresorts aping an older fad for staged animal fights.
From theCambridge English Corpus
As early as the 1850s, working-class men's clothiers and outfitting firms tried to moveupmarketby advertising their "ladies' habit room," implying that their clientele owned horses.
From theCambridge English Corpus
By the 1930s extensive municipal planning and land speculation had transformed it into a modern quarter with a regular grid of roads, andupmarketmiddle-class neighbourhoods.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The target article takes self-experimentationupmarket, in the sense that it is published in a mainstream journal (displacing an article based on traditional methods) and deals with mainstream scientific questions.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Khayelitsha's landscape is dominated by vast areas of informal houses (shacks), intersected by small sub-economic formal structures and some small areas of relativelyupmarketprivatelybuilt homes.
From theCambridge English Corpus
We are telling our manufacturers to moveupmarket, to increase design input and to go for niche markets, but those markets can only be global.
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That industry has goneupmarketand is successfully marketing its goods.
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Some fear that their colleagues in other housing associations will be pressurised to moveupmarket.
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We are very strong inupmarketproducts, for instance, and we are the second largest exporter of textile and clothing products in the world.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
There are others which are not quite soupmarket, but which ought to be preserved.
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In other words, if tenants pick a house or flat in anupmarketarea, they can expect to pay the rent or get out.
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Some home helps have gone ratherupmarketand are interested in counselling and all that.
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Compares with buses, it is more reliable, cleaner and fume-free, has greater capacity, is faster and more modern and has anupmarketimage.
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Some of them have been closed while others have been converted toupmarkethotels.
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I believe that at the moment the station is due to be turned into anupmarkethousing estate.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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