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Surcharge vs Markup - What's the difference?

surcharge | markup |

As nouns the difference between surcharge and markup

is that surcharge is an addition of extra charge on the agreed or stated price while markup is the notation that is used to indicate how text should be displayed.

As a verb surcharge

is to apply a surcharge.

surcharge

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An addition of extra charge on the agreed or stated price.
    • Our airline tickets cost twenty dollars more than we expected because we had to pay a fuel surcharge .
  • An excessive price charged e.g. to an unsuspecting customer.
  • (philately) An overprint on a stamp that alters (usually raises) the original nominal value of the stamp; used especially in times of hyperinflation.
  • (legal) A charge that has been omitted from an account as payment of a credit to the charged party.
    • (Burrill)
  • (legal) A penalty for failure to exercise common prudence and skill in the performance of a fiduciary's duties.
  • (obsolete) An excessive load or burden.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • A numerous nobility causeth poverty and inconvenience in a state, for it is surcharge of expense.
  • (legal, obsolete) The putting, by a commoner, of more animals on the common than he is entitled to.

    • See also

    * surtax * surcharged

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To apply a surcharge.
  • To overload; to overburden.
    • to surcharge''' an animal or a ship; to '''surcharge a cannon
  • * Dryden
    • Your head reclined, as hiding grief from view, / Droops like a rose surcharged with morning dew.
  • (legal) To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into (e.g. a common) than one has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain.
    • (Blackstone)
  • To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.
    • (Daniel)

    Antonyms

    * discount

    markup

    English

    (wikipedia markup)

    Alternative forms

    * mark-up

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The notation that is used to indicate how text should be displayed.
  • * 2003 , Creative Commons, Creative Commons GNU GPL
    • You can display the icon on any site you offer your software for download using the following markup :
  • The percentage or amount by which a seller hikes up his buy-in price when determining his selling price.
    • You don’t make much money selling gas because the markup is so low.
  • An increase in price.
    • There will be a markup on those products next week; better buy them now.

    Related terms

    * markdown * mark up

    Derived terms

    * markup language * markup rate