markup

Noun

1. The percentage or amount by which a seller hikes up their buy-in price when determining their selling price.
   • You don’t make much money selling gas because the markup is so low.
2. An increase in price.
   • There will be a markup on those products next week; better buy them now.
3. The notation that is used to indicate the meaning of the elements in an electronic document, or to dictate how text should be displayed.
   • For example, a filename of “home.html” would be appropriate for an ASCII/text file containing HTML markup. - 1996, Bebo White, HTML and the Art of Authoring for the World Wide Web, Springer, →ISBN, page 25:
   • You can display the icon on any site you offer your software for download using the following markup[…] - 2003, “Creative Commons GNU GPL”, in Creative Commons, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2009:
4. The process by which proposed legislation is debated and amended.