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MARKUP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does markup mean? 

MARKUP (noun)
  The noun MARKUP has 2 senses:

1. the amount added to the cost to determine the asking priceplay

2. 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)play

  Familiarity information: MARKUP used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MARKUP (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The amount added to the cost to determine the asking price

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("markup" is a kind of...):

earnings; lucre; net; net income; net profit; profit; profits (the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses))

Derivation:

mark up (increase the price of)


Sense 2

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("markup" is a kind of...):

direction; instruction (a message describing how something is to be done)


 Context examples 


A general-purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages.

(Extensible Markup Language, NCI Thesaurus)



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