mark sth down
— phrasal verb with mark uk/mɑːk/us/mɑːrk/verb
(REDUCE)
to reduce the price of something, usually in order to encourage people to buy it:
Low consumer demand has forced us to mark down a wide range of goods, sometimes by as much as 30 percent.
Shares in the electricity companies were marked down following the announcement of the new energy tax.
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Price decreases
- bearish
- closeout
- concession
- cut-price
- deduction
- deflate
- deflation
- depreciation
- discount
- downturn
- knock
- knock sb/sth down
- mark
- offer
- put
- put sth down 1
- roll
- roll sth back
- slump
- tumble
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(RECORD)
to write something on a piece of paper in order to make a record of it:
I've marked down the number of each item sold.
Look carefully at these questions and mark your answers down in the right-hand column.
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Writing & typing
- borrow
- chalk
- chronicle
- co-author
- compose
- copy
- creative writing
- fair sth out
- fire
- ghostwrite
- misspell
- orthography
- record
- run
- run sth off
- scrawl
- transcription
- typing
- write
- write sth up
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