Upscale vs Premium - 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.
Superior in quality; higher in price or value.
A prize or award.
Something offered at a reduced price as an inducement to buy something else.
A bonus paid in addition to normal payments.
The amount to be paid for an insurance policy.
An unusually high value.
(finance) The amount by which a security's value exceeds its face value.
As an adjective upscale
is (us) marked by wealth or quality; high-class.As a verb upscale
is to increase in size, to scale up.As a noun premium is
bonus (extra amount of money given as a premium).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.
