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mark down

mark down verb: to reduce the price of.

Verb

mark down (third-person singular simple present marks down, present participle marking down, simple past and past participle marked down)

  1. (transitive) To reduce the price of.
  2. (transitive) To write a memorandum about.
  3. (transitive) To subtract marks or points from, for an error.
    • The writing is good, but I had to mark you down for failing to cite references.
  4. (transitive) To write down.
  5. (transitive) To draw a conclusion about something; to consider something to be a certain way. (Typically used with as.)
    • They could not take what he'd become / and mark him down as free, / and so they trapped him with his dream / and nailed him to a tree.2012, Bill Comeau, “The Hymn of Hope”, in The Tao of Pokey, page 9

Forms of mark down

third-person singular presentmarks down
present participlemarking down
past participlemarked down
pastmarked down

Questions about mark down

What does mark down mean?
Mark down means to reduce the price of.
What part of speech is mark down?
Mark down is a verb.
What is the past tense of mark down?
The past tense of mark down is marked down.

Words near mark down in the dictionary

  1. mark 1 eyeball
  2. mark 1 eyeballs
  3. mark and sweep
  4. mark as
  5. Mark Cross
  6. mark down
  7. mark down as
  8. mark I eyeball
  9. mark I eyeballs
  10. Mark Municipality
  11. mark my word

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