markup
nounUK /ˈmɑː(ɹ)k.ʌp/
Etymology Deverbal from mark up.
1
The percentage or amount by which a seller hikes up their buy-in price when determining their 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, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences The notation that is used to indicate the meaning of the elements in an electronic document, or to dictate how text should be displayed.
- For example, a filename of “home.html” would be appropriate for an ASCII/text file containing HTML markup.1996, Bebo White, HTML and the Art of Authoring for the World Wide Web, Springer, →ISBN, page 25:
- You can display the icon on any site you offer your software for download using the following markup[…]2003, “Creative Commons GNU GPL”, in Creative Commons, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2009:
4
Government, Politics US The process by which proposed legislation is debated and amended.
- Derived terms
- maintained markup, markup language, markup rate, premarkup, wiki markup