@prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .
@prefix dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> .
@prefix mi: <https://taxonomy.materialinstruments.com/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://taxonomy.materialinstruments.com/id/tier/market/premium>
  a skos:Concept ;
  skos:inScheme <https://taxonomy.materialinstruments.com/id/axis/tier> ;
  skos:prefLabel "Premium"@en ;
  skos:definition "Above the middle by design. Materials, execution or brand carry a deliberate premium that the buyer is choosing to pay."@en ;
  skos:altLabel "high-end"@en ;
  mi:searchedWithout [ dcterms:date "2026-10-21" ; mi:query "premium market positioning" ; mi:scheme "aat" ; mi:via "https://vocab.getty.edu:443/sparql; luc:term search, AAT preferred labels and English scope notes, LIMIT 150" ] ;
  mi:searchedWithout [ dcterms:date "2026-10-21" ; mi:query "premium market positioning" ; mi:scheme "uniclass" ; mi:via "https://uniclass.thenbs.com/search" ] ;
  mi:sourceBasis "evidenced" ;
  dcterms:source "brand-positioning vocabulary in a materials-retrieval system (src-05) and project budget bands in a project-materials database (src-07)" ;
  dcterms:date "2026-08-22" ;
  mi:status "active" ;
  skos:scopeNote "`upscale` is NOT recorded here as another name for this term, though the trade uses it that way, because `tier.chain-scale.upscale` is a different rung on a longer ladder. Letting the word resolve to both is how the two scales would quietly become one."@en ;
  mi:rank "3"^^xsd:positiveInteger ;
  mi:rankOf "4"^^xsd:positiveInteger .