downmarket

downmarket
I. downmarket down‧mar‧ket 1 [ˌdaʊnˈmɑːkt◂ ǁ -ɑːr-] adjective
involving goods and services that are cheap and not very good quality compared to similar goods or services; = downscale AmE:

• The mail order business has never been able to break away from its traditional downmarket image.

  [m0] II. downmarket downmarket 2 adverb COMMERCE
1. go/​move downmarket to start buying or selling cheaper goods or services; = downscale AmE:

• Mercedes will move further downmarket with the Smart car.

2. take something downmarket to change a product or a service, or people's ideas about it, so that it is cheaper or seems cheaper and more popular; = downscale AmE:

• He was accused of taking BBC Radio 3 downmarket to compete with a new commercial station.

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downmarket UK US /ˌdaʊnˈmɑːkɪt/ adjective UK (US downscale) MARKETING
DISAPPROVING cheap in price and low in quality: »

a downmarket tabloid newspaper

Compare UPMARKET(Cf. ↑upmarket) adjective, UPSCALE(Cf. ↑upscale)
downmarket adverb
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The store seems to have gone downmarket in an attempt to attract more customers.


Financial and business terms. 2012.

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