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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 ofplay

  Familiarity information: MARK DOWN used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MARK DOWN (verb)


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 depĂ´t.

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



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