up market

Example Sentences

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In some of Switzerland's most famous up-market resorts, like St Moritz or Zermatt, there are long-standing concerns that the focus on luxury is pricing locals out of the market.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2025

They had two different ideas of what middle class should look like, and she had to up-market the set to match what the director was looking for.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2022

Akeroyd will join Burberry next April, succeeding Marco Gobbetti, who announced his departure in June, midway into a multi-year turnaround to take the brand further up-market.

From Reuters • Nov. 11, 2021

“We are starting up-market, we are working our way down as quickly as we can — we are using their playbook almost verbatim,” Lee tells The Verge in an interview.

From The Verge • Jul. 29, 2021

His songs were meant to sound like up-market folk songs: immediately memorable, lyrically easily understandable and relatively predictable in shape.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall