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to mark down

to mark down

6 2.5
To lower the price of something
  • phrasal verb
  • /mɑrk daʊn/
translation icon : rebajar
  • They're on sale for $2.99, marked down from $90.
  • marked down the price
  • marked-down merchandise
  • marked down the item

When rates go up, it becomes more expensive for them to hold that stock, so they mark down watches to sell them.

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Examples

  • It's been marked down to eight dollars for our Easter sale.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Now, I know red is your favorite color, but, you see, the yellow bags were marked down 20%.

    The Paperboy (1994)

  • When rates go up, it becomes more expensive for them to hold that stock, so they mark down watches to sell them.

    Patrick Boyle

  • Yes, everything in the shop is marked down 25 percent... ...some articles even more.

    The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

  • Wagner also plans to mark down prices, especially for the holidays, likely by 20 percent.

    Blog text (8)

  • The stores are already marking down clothes for the new season.

    Blog text (11)

  • For the next half-hour, everything in our drapery department will be marked down 30%.

    Chopping Mall (1986)

  • One set of Matryoshkas, with Gorbachev on the outside, had been marked down by half.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • And I bought a Versace scarf that was marked down to twenty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • As a matter of fact, tonight we start marking down everything in the store half price.

Synonyms

to discount
vsto mark down
36 1.7

To sell something at a lower price than usual

covers general price cuts and not only those for special sales
to undercut
vsto mark down
28 4.4

Sell goods or services at a lower price than a competitor

reduces price without aiming to be cheaper than competitors
to cheapen
vsto mark down
20 4.3

To make something seem less valuable, often by lowering its price or quality

reduces price only without implying loss of value or quality
to knock off
vsto mark down
12 4.3

Lower the price by a set amount

reduces price in a general way without naming an exact amount
to underprice
vsto mark down
3 5.2

Sell something for less than its normal market price

reduces price generally rather than selling below market value

Antonyms

to mark up
5 3.5

To raise the price of something so it sells for more money

How Discounted

to slash
79 3.7
to mark down
6 2.5
discount
260 1.0

Surface Forms

mark down infinitive
marked down past
marked down past participle
marking down present participle
marks down third person singular

Morphology

mark + down

Knowing 'mark' and 'down' a B1 learner could plausibly infer a meaning like 'write down' or 'note' (so there is a partial compositional link). However, the specific sense 'to use Markdown (the markup language)' depends on knowledge of the proper name/technical tool and is not predictable from the constituents or their common combinatory patterns, so full understanding requires prior exposure.

Etymology

The phrasal verb mark down comes from shops where a seller would mark a new, lower price on a tag, writing the smaller number 'down' on the label. That's why it means 'to reduce the price'.