downmarket
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]downmarket (comparative more downmarket, superlative most downmarket)
- Designed for low-income consumers.
- Of, or relating to the less prestigious sector of the market.
Related terms
[edit]Adverb
[edit]downmarket (comparative more downmarket, superlative most downmarket)
- Towards the less prestigious sector of the market.
- 2021 December 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: The Great Western Railway Craft Skills Award: Victoria Arcade”, in RAIL, number 946, page 59:
- Sadly, by the 1970s the arcade had gone downmarket with brash shop fronts and cheap shops, some of doubtful reputation.
Verb
[edit]downmarket (third-person singular simple present downmarkets, present participle downmarketing, simple past and past participle downmarketed)
- # (transitive) To render or become downmarket.
- 2011, Ricardo Gil Soeiro, Sofia Tavares, Rethinking the Humanities: Paths and Challenges, page 37:
- If there has been a genuine dissemination of a certain degree of readership, of artistic interest and, very notably, of musical awareness and response, there has also been a 'downmarketing', a vulgarization of culture […]
- 2000, Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, Inside the Olympic Industry: Power, Politics, and Activism, page 147:
- As Rob Plant explained, there is a “downmarketing” process when tourists experience problems with their initial accommodation plans and settle for the next level: for example, from one-star hotel down to backpacker hostel.
References
[edit]- “downmarket”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.