upscale
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Adjective
Toward or relating to the more expensive or affluent sector of the market,
/ˌəpˈskāl/,/ˈəpˌskāl/,
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Toward or relating to the more expensive or affluent sector of the market,
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Toward or relating to the more expensive or affluent sector of the market
- - Hawaii's upscale boutique hotels
- - once known as the low-cost cousin of beef, fish has moved upscale
Web Definitions:
- appropriate for people with good incomes; "an upscale neighborhood"; "an upscale motel"
- In economics, a luxury good is a good for which demand increases more than proportionally as income rises, in contrast to a "necessity good", for which demand is not related to income.
- To increase in size, to scale up; Marked by wealth or quality; high-class
- (upscaleness) The quality of being upscale
- Says who? Overused by Realtors and reporters alike, it always says much more about the source’s place on the economic scale than the object’s.
- The practice of building large HPR versions of smaller model rockets.
- This is a word that should be used to describe something that’s financially out of reach of the typical person’s life, like Bloomingdale’s, Neiman-Marcus or Gucci. Instead, “upscale” is often used to describe something that’s new, polished and modern. ...