mark down

Idioms  

1. Reduce the price of something, as in If they mark down these shoes, I'll buy two pairs. The mark here alludes to the label indicating a price. [Mid-1800s]

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Example Sentences

Private credit companies will have to sharply mark down their software investments.

From MarketWatch

In recent sessions, money managers have marked down stocks in industries as varied as software, wealth management and trucking, worried these businesses could be disrupted by artificial-intelligence tools.

From The Wall Street Journal

And the recent examples of private loans held near cost that were marked down dramatically shortly thereafter might have investors in a doubtful frame of mind.

From The Wall Street Journal

Slowly, precisely, he marked down angles and distances.

From Literature

A private credit fund run by the world’s largest asset manager was getting hit hard in premarket trade after revealing its net asset value will be marked down by nearly one-fifth.

From MarketWatch

Related Words

• curtail
• cut
• cut down
• decrease
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• devalue
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• lessen
• pare
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