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downmarket

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down-mar·ket also down·mar·ket (dounmärkt)
adj.
Appealing to or designed for low-income consumers; downscale.
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Adj.1.downmarket - designed for low-income consumers
upmarket - designed for consumers with high incomes; "he turned up in well-cut clothes...and upmarket felt hats"- New Yorker

downmarket
adjective second-rate, cheap, inferior, tacky (informal), shoddy, low-grade, tawdry, low-quality, two-bit (U.S. & Canad. slang), cheap and nasty (informal), lowbrow, bush-league (Austral. & N.Z. informal) downmarket television drama
elite, superior, high-quality, posh (informal, chiefly Brit.), top-quality, high-class, first-rate, up-market, highbrow
Translations
downmarket [ˌdaʊnˈmɑːkɪt]
A. ADJ [product] → para el sector popular del mercado
B. ADV to go downmarketbuscar clientela en el sector popular
downmarket down-market [ˌdaʊnˈmɑːrkɪt]
adj
(= poor quality) [product, service, image] → bas de gamme inv
[newspaper, programme] → bas de gamme inv; [restaurant] → très ordinaire(e)
adv
to go downmarket (= reduce quality) → faire dans le bas de gamme
down payment downpayment [ˌdaʊnˈpeɪmənt] nacompte m


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