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单词 mark-up
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mark-upn.

Brit. /ˈmɑːkʌp/, U.S. /ˈmɑrkˌəp/
Forms: 1900s– mark up, 1900s– mark-up, 1900s– markup.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: to mark up at mark v. Phrasal verbs.
Etymology: < to mark up at mark v. Phrasal verbs.In sense 2c now usually in form markup; in other senses usually with hyphen in British English, but written as one word in U.S. English.
1. The amount added by a seller to the cost price of goods to cover overheads and provide profit.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [noun] > amount added to cost price
mark-up1920
1920 P. I. Carthage Retail Organization & Accounting Control ii. 44 The mark up of merchandise refers to the percentage or the amount of money added to the cost in order to obtain the selling price.
1936 Economist 22 Feb. 422/1 The ‘mark up’ (retailers' margin) is evidently adequate to provide relatively stable earnings on a stabilised capital investment.
1957 Times 19 Aug. 9/2 Shops often add to the price which they pay for their merchandise to manufacturers and wholesalers a percentage ‘mark up’ of 30 or 40 per cent.
1972 M. Woodhouse Mama Doll xiii. 175 The estimated value of the items on the inventory is somewhere around fifty-five million pounds... Allowing a hundred per cent markup on sale, that would make their wholesale value some twenty-seven million pounds.
1989 Economist 25 Mar. (Survey) 17/2 Other commercial banks believe that their balance sheets are best used as warehouses for goods that are bought cheaply by the bank and can be sold at a mark-up by their investment banks.
2.
a. U.S. Politics. The process of putting proposed legislation into the final form in which it will be voted on by Congress; a meeting of a congressional committee at which this process takes place.
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1962 E. J. McCarthy Crescent Dict. Amer. Politics 95/1 Mark-Up, putting in final form a legislative proposal.
1967 N.Y. Times 21 Aug. 1/7 Still ahead are the committee's private ‘mark-up’, or line-by-line revision of the Economic Opportunity Act.
1978 CQ Almanac 34 493/2 During markup, a number of changes were made in both bills to increase the system's public accountability, give it greater editorial freedom and increase its financial stability.
1989 Guardian 19 July 23/7 The House Armed Services Committee, in its markup of the defence authorisation bill, used the Stealth account as a piggybank for financing other weapons.
b. The process or result of marking corrections on copy or proofs in preparation for printing.
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1973 A. Davis Graphics iii. 74 The type mark-up by which the designer conveys his instructions to the compositor is one of the essential tools of the trade.
1986 Bookseller 7 June 2275/1 Traditionally, copy preparation and typographical markup have involved the use of a large, rather ill-defined set of words, abbreviations and signs.
c. Computing. The process of embedding tags (tag n.1 8e) in an electronic text so as to distinguish the text's logical, syntactic, or structural components; the tags so embedded. markup language n. any of various tagging systems used in text markup (cf. HTML n. at H n. Additions, SGML n. at S n.1 Additions).Markup may be used both to format the appearance of a text and to facilitate searching and other operations.
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society > computing and information technology > data > [noun] > label
tag1948
tagging1948
mark-up1980
1980 IBM Techn. Disclosure Bull. Apr. 5130 A program which generates a report from machine-readable data does not insert format-related information directly into its output, but instead inserts GML (Generalized Markup Language) tags into the output file to describe significant data items.
1985 New OED System Design (Oxf. Univ. Press) 2 Since structural information is only partially contained in the text captured by the keyboarding contractor, structural mark-up will be generated and inserted by the system.
1991 Lit. & Ling. Computing 6 36/2 Since any defined markup language must be finite, the implication of this axiom is that in order to be generally useful a markup language must be extensible.
1998 Chem. in Brit. Sept. 26/2 Markup is a mechanism that allows the author to express semantics and can thus be used to provide fine grained structure and relationships in a document.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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