0 the amount by which the price of something is increased before it is sold again:
1 an increase in price, esp. the amount by which the cost of an item for sale is increased to provide a profit to the person selling it:
The markup on books has to be at least 30%.
This is so because a lower markup reduces the desire of the policymaker to inflate the economy and to boost demand.
Figure 3 shows that the optimal volatility of inflation decreases when the elasticity of demand increases (the markup decreases).
In contrast, producers attempt to protect their profit markup during recessions, as evidenced by the larger output price inflation relative to nominal wage inflation.
A text containing semantic markup is effectively a parallel text between human language and semantic structures.
Its concrete syntax is simple and it looks familiar to anyone used to markup languages.
Thus, this markup significantly narrows the field of possible answer phrases for when questions.
The first is the need for a standard format (a 'markup language') for encoding models in a robust, parsible, electronic form.
A specific markup language needs to define the structure of the data by imposing constraints on the valid use of selected elements and attributes.
