mark down

verb

To reduce the price of.

“The writing is good, but I had to mark you down for failing to cite references.”

Opposite
mark up
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Meanings

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

present singular third person marks down · participle present marking down · participle past marked down · past marked down

  1. transitiveTo reduce the price of.
  2. transitiveTo write a memorandum about.
  3. transitiveTo 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. transitiveTo write down.
  5. transitiveTo 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

Synonyms & antonyms

verbreduce the price of

Opposite
mark up
Broader
shaveknock off

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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APA

mark down. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mark%20down

MLA

“mark down.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mark%20down. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mark down,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mark%20down.

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