Meaning of Markup | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The percentage or amount by which a seller hikes up his buy-in price when determining his selling price.
   countable, uncountable
2. An increase in price.
   countable, uncountable
3. The notation that is used to indicate the meaning of the elements in an electronic document, or to dictate how text should be displayed.
   countable, uncountable
4. The process by which proposed legislation is debated and amended.
   US, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

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

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

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

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

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