markup

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mark⋅up

[mahrk-uhp]

–noun

Commerce.

a.	the amount added by a seller to the cost of a commodity to cover expenses and profit in fixing the selling price.

b.	the difference between the cost price and the selling price, computed as a percentage of either the selling price or the cost price.

c.	an increase in price, as of a commodity.

d.	the amount by which a price is increased.

2.	the putting of a legislative bill into final form.

3.	a detailed instruction, usually written on a manuscript to be typeset, concerning style of type, makeup of pages, and the like.

Origin:
1915–20; n. use of v. phrase mark up

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mark·up (märk'ŭp')

A raise in the price of an item for sale.
An amount added to a cost price in calculating a selling price, especially an amount that takes into account overhead and profit.
A session of a U.S. congressional committee at which a legislative bill is put into final form.
1. The collection of detailed stylistic instructions written on a manuscript that is to be typeset.
2. Computer Science The collection of tags that describe the specifications of an electronic document, as for formatting.

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Markup

The difference between an investment's lowest current offering price among dealers and the higher price a dealer charges a customer. Markups occur when dealers act as principals (buying and selling securities from their own accounts, at their own risk), as opposed to brokers (receiving a fee for facilitating a transaction).

Investopedia Commentary

Certain securities are available for purchase by retail investors from dealers who sell the securities directly from their own accounts. The dealer's only compensation for the sale comes in the form of the markup, the difference between the price the security was purchased at and the price the dealer charges to the retail investor. The dealer assumes some risk by acting in this capacity, as the market price of the security in his or her inventory could drop before he/she is able to sell to investors.

Note that most dealers are also brokers, and vice versa, so the term broker-dealer is common.

Also spelled: mark up, markups

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markup

An upward revaluation of a security by a dealer because of a rise in the security's market price. For example, a dealer may decide that a markup on a security issue held in inventory is appropriate because of a rising stock market. Compare markdown 1.
See spread 3.
The difference between the price charged by a dealer to a retail customer and the prevailing price at which the same security is being offered by market makers. Compare markdown 2.

markup text
In computerised document preparation, a method of adding information to the text indicating the logical components of a document, or instructions for layout of the text on the page or other information which can be interpreted by some automatic system.
For example, the source of this dictionary is marked up by enclosing cross-references in curly braces which are significant to the World-Wide Web server software.
(1995-03-30)

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