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Deluxe vs Upscale - What's the difference?

deluxe | upscale |

As adjectives the difference between deluxe and upscale

is that deluxe is being very fine in quality or luxurious while upscale is (us) marked by wealth or quality; high-class.

As a verb upscale is

to increase in size, to scale up.

deluxe

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Being very fine in quality or luxurious.
  • upscale

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (US) Marked by wealth or quality; high-class.
  • * 2013 June 18, , " Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
  • In Rio de Janeiro, thousands protested in a gritty area far from the city’s upscale seaside districts. In other cities, demonstrators blocked roads, barged into City Council meetings or interrupted sessions of local lawmakers, clapping loudly and sometimes taking over the microphone.
  • *2002 "This strategy [of rotating the garage with respect to the street] has become popular in many upscale housing developments nationwide primarily becaues it de-emphasizes the garage and makes the house look more like their traditional counterparts from the turn of the last century." — Sarah Susanka, Not So Big Solutions for Your Home
  • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To increase in size, to scale up.
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