upmarket
Speech parts
1. upmarket - Adjective
2. upmarket - Verb
3. upmarket - Adverb
Meaning
designed for consumers with high incomes
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Examples
he turned up in well-cut clothes...and upmarket felt hats
According to Clive Sinclair, purchasers of the ZX81 came from "a reasonably broad spectrum" that ranged from readers of the upmarket Observer and Sunday Times newspapers to the more downmarket but numerous Sun readers.
An upmarket weekly's advertisers are often organic grocers, boutiques, and theatre companies while a downmarket's may have those of trade schools, supermarkets, and the sex industry.
During this period, rum was cheaply made and not considered a refined drink, and rarely sold in upmarket taverns.
As specialty coffee developed in the 1980s (following earlier developments in the 1970s and even 1960s), an indigenous artisanal coffee culture developed, with espresso instead positioned as an upmarket drink.
A 40-year-old man has been murdered in an upmarket area of Kolkata, near a bustling shopping mall.