1
: an amount added to the cost price to determine the selling price
broadly
: profit
2
: a U.S. Congressional committee session at which a bill is put into final form before it is reported out
Examples of markup in a Sentence
Noun
The retail markup on their products is 25 percent.
selling used cars at high markups
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Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2025
Instead of procuring off-the-shelf control boards and motor drivers from external suppliers, a typical practice that adds markups and limits system optimization, the company’s designs these critical modules in-house.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
Jeri Clausing, AFAR Media, 31 Oct. 2025
Sinegal instituted a policy that Costco could mark up merchandise by no more than fourteen per cent—fifteen in the case of Kirkland goods—and received a report on anything that reached more than thirteen per cent.
—Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Build capabilities for generative engine optimization (GEO) with structured facts, schema markup, comparison tables, FAQs, and fresh customer data feeds.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2025
Instead of procuring off-the-shelf control boards and motor drivers from external suppliers, a typical practice that adds markups and limits system optimization, the company’s designs these critical modules in-house.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
That meant marking up my chest, back, and underarms to know where to guide the machines for the treatments that would start immediately on my return.
—Jeri Clausing, AFAR Media, 31 Oct. 2025
Sinegal instituted a policy that Costco could mark up merchandise by no more than fourteen per cent—fifteen in the case of Kirkland goods—and received a report on anything that reached more than thirteen per cent.
—Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
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“Markup.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/markup. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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markup
1 of 2 noun
mark·up
ˈmär-ˌkəp 
: an amount added to the cost price of an article to set the selling price
mark up
2 of 2 verb(ˈ)mär-ˈkəp
: to put a higher price on
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