Upscale vs Midscale - What's the difference?
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(US) Marked by wealth or quality; high-class.
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*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
To increase in size, to scale up.
(business) Neither downscale nor upscale
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As adjectives the difference between upscale and midscale
is that upscale is marked by wealth or quality; high-class while midscale is neither downscale nor upscale.As a verb upscale
is to increase in size, to scale up.upscale
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(en adjective)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.
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