What does upscale mean?

Definitions for upscale
ˈʌpˈskeɪlup·scale

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. upscaleadjective

    appropriate for people with good incomes

    "an upscale neighborhood"; "an upscale motel"

Wiktionary

  1. upscaleverb

    To increase in size, to scale up.

  2. upscaleadjective

    Marked by wealth or quality; high-class.

  3. Etymology: up + scale, 1966

Anagrams for upscale »

  1. capsule

  2. scale up

  3. specula

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of upscale in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of upscale in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of upscale in a Sentence

  1. David Fernandez:

    We literally overnight reinvented ourselves from an upscale casual dining establishment into what I told my executive chef had to be a badass food truck without wheels.

  2. David Kochel:

    Inflation and the overall cost of living is going to bite the non-college working class a heck of a lot more than it is the white-collar upscale college grads, there's a lot of things working against Henry Olsen that Henry Olsen doesn't have much control over.

  3. Michael Paglia:

    Up until this point, ‘better for you’ items were limited to Whole Foods and other upscale retailers, within the past year or so, there’s been a shift, led by retailers like Kroger, Lucky’s and Trader Joe’s’ parent company, Aldi. We’re starting to see the natural/organic trend hit a critical mass; it’s starting to go mainstream.

  4. Xisco Porcel:

    Most of the hotels in Mallorca have made big investments in recent years to go upscale. We all have big loans.

  5. Barbara Ehrenreich:

    Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's knocked to the ground while trying to board the six o clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn't allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes.

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