MARKS

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• MARKS (noun)
  The noun MARKS has 1 sense:

1. English businessman who created a retail chain (1888-1964)

  Familiarity information: MARKS used as a noun is very rare.

• MARKS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English businessman who created a retail chain (1888-1964)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

First Baron Marks of Broughton; Marks; Simon Marks

Instance hypernyms:

businessman; man of affairs (a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive))

 Context examples 

And I took with me meat and fish, and the lash-marks of Ivan, and I found Kamo-tah no longer groaning, but dead.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It was damp, marshy ground, as is all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either side.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were no marks, then, though the night was a wet one?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If this weekend marks your birthday, a special gift from a friend may warm your heart.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A dual view of Saturn's icy moon Rhea marks the return of NASA's Cassini spacecraft to the realm of the planet's icy satellites.

(Saturn Spacecraft Returns to the Realm of Icy Moons, NASA)

It was the menacing truce that marks the meeting of wild beasts that prey.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The floor was seemingly inches deep, except where there were recent footsteps, in which on holding down my lamp I could see marks of hobnails where the dust was cracked.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“This is a most extraordinary thing,” said the inspector, “I could swear that these marks were not here yesterday evening.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This milestone marks a 50 percent increase in the number of known NEAs since 2013, when discoveries reached 10,000 in August of that year.

(Catalog of Known Near-Earth Asteroids Tops 15,000, NASA)

So you keep an account of my good and bad marks in Brooke's face, do you?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)