Definition of "upmarket" []

• Appealing to or designed for high-income consumers; upscale: "He turned up in well-cut clothes . . . and upmarket felt hats” ( New Yorker). (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "That's fine, except when you find out how much the Exec types are earning, watch them waste money on yet another junket either here or overseas, live in upmarket suburbs, and so on."
• "I've rarely seen so many black lacquered surfaces outside certain upmarket Japanese restaurants."
• "They were stubborn and didnt addapt their European business modell, while Wall-Mart went a lot more upmarket from the start."