markdown
a reduction in price, usually to encourage buying.
the amount by which a price is reduced.
Origin of markdown
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How to use markdown in a sentence
You must be off quickly to the place, Jean, and hire a flat there, where a watcher can mark down all her doings.
Balsamo, The Magician | Alexander DumasMin and I played gin rummy that night but we kept forgetting to mark down the score.
The Love of Frank Nineteen | David Carpenter KnightPut a mark down there for me where the two police officers were standing.
Warren Commission (6 of 26): Hearings Vol. VI (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyIll mark down each sum in a book opposite the name of the man 94 whose it is, and you shall have it all when I pay you your wages.
Bluebeard | Clifton JohnsonLittle Mrs Maidan was very pale, with a red mark down her left cheek, and the key would not come out of her black hair.
The Good Soldier | Ford Madox Ford
British Dictionary definitions for markdown
/ (ˈmɑːkˌdaʊn) /
a price reduction
(tr, adverb) to reduce in price
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with markdown
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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