Word.ws English Dictionary

denet

denet verb: to reduce the price of (a book) below its agreed-upon net value with the publisher.

Verb

denet (third-person singular simple present denets, present participle denetting, simple past and past participle denetted)

  1. (transitive) To reduce the price of (a book) below its agreed-upon net value with the publisher.
    • What prompted the demise of the agreement was the action of a number of publishers who 'denetted' the price of their books.1993, Joseph Whittaker, Whitaker's Almanack, page 1142
    • Recent changes in the retail situation now allow denetting of a book six months after publication rather than after a year.1994, Cathy Stewart, The European Media Industry: Fragmentation and Convergence in Broadcasting and Publishing

Forms of denet

third-person singular presentdenets
present participledenetting
past participledenetted
pastdenetted

Origin of denet

From de- + net.

Questions about denet

What does denet mean?
Denet means to reduce the price of (a book) below its agreed-upon net value with the publisher.
What part of speech is denet?
Denet is a verb.
What is the past tense of denet?
The past tense of denet is denetted.

Words near denet in the dictionary

  1. denes
  2. denest
  3. denested
  4. denesting
  5. denests
  6. denet
  7. denets
  8. denetted
  9. denetting
  10. deneutralization
  11. deneutralize

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: denet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “denet.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/denet. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.