mark down

Thân thiện

The store will mark down the winter coats next week.

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To reduce the price of something for sale: The primary meaning is to lower the listed or selling price of an item, often to clear inventory or promote sales.

Usage

• This verb is typically used in commercial and retail contexts.
• It is a transitive verb, requiring a direct object (the item whose price is being reduced).
• Often used in the passive voice ("to be marked down").

Examples

• Verb:
  • The store manager decided to mark down the winter coats at the end of the season.
  • All discontinued models have been marked down by 50%.
  • We can't mark this item down any further; it's already at cost.

Advanced Usage

• "to mark something down to (a price)": To reduce the price to a specific, lower amount.
  • The sofa was marked down to $399 from $800.
• "to mark something down as (a category)": In broader usage, this can mean to classify or designate something in a particular way, but this is a distinct phrasal verb from the pricing meaning.
  • The incident was marked down as a training exercise. (Note: This is a different sense of the phrasal verb.)

Variants and Related Words

• Markdown (n): The act of reducing a price, or the amount by which a price is reduced.
  • The store is having a huge markdown on furniture this weekend.
  • That's a $100 markdown from the original price.
• Marked-down (adj): Describing an item whose price has been reduced.
  • Look for the marked-down items at the back of the store.

Synonyms

• Reduce (the price)
• Discount
• Lower (the price)
• Slash (prices) - more informal and emphatic

Antonyms

• Mark up (to increase the price)
• Raise (the price)

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Mark up: To increase the price of an item, typically from a wholesale cost to a retail price.
  • Retailers usually mark up goods by at least 40%.

Học thuật

Verb

1. reduce the price of