Upscale is used to describe products or services that are expensive, of good quality, and intended to appeal to people in a high social class. upscale department-store chains such as Bloomingdale's and Saks Fifth Avenue. Upscale is also an adverb. T-shirts, the epitome of American casualness, have moved upscale. relating to people from a high social class who have a lot of money British Equivalent: upmarket
[ '&p ] (adverb.) before 12th century. partly from Middle English up upward, from Old English up; partly from Middle English uppe on high, from Old English; both akin to Old High German uf up and probably to Latin sub under, Greek hypo under, hyper over; more at OVER.