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MARK DOWN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mark down mean?
• MARK DOWN (verb)
The verb MARK DOWN has 1 sense:
1. reduce the price of
Familiarity information: MARK DOWN used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Reduce the price of
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "mark down" is one way to...):
knock off; shave (cut the price of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "mark down"):
discount (give a reduction in price on)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
mark up (increase the price of)
Context examples
He will get on to Paris, mark down our luggage, and wait for two days at the depôt.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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