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mark·up  (märkp)

n.

1. A raise in the price of an item for sale.

2. An amount added to a cost price in calculating a selling price, especially an amount that takes into account overhead and profit.

3. A session of a U.S. congressional committee at which a legislative bill is put into final form.

4.

a. The collection of detailed stylistic instructions written on a manuscript that is to be typeset.

b. Computer Science The collection of tags that describe the specifications of an electronic document, as for formatting.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	markup - the amount added to the cost to determine the asking price net income, net profit, profit, profits, earnings, lucre, net - the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
	2.	markup - detailed stylistic instructions for typesetting something that is to be printed; manual markup is usually written on the copy (e.g. underlining words that are to be set in italics) instruction, direction - a message describing how something is to be done; "he gave directions faster than she could follow them"