noun
- a reduction in the selling price of an item
- a lightweight markup language used for formatting plain text
Usage: business
Usage: computing
Examples
- The store offered a 30% markdown on winter coats.
- All clearance items received a significant markdown.
- The retailer used markdowns to move excess inventory.
- She wrote the documentation using Markdown syntax.
- The blog post was formatted in Markdown before publishing.
- Markdown makes it easy to create headers and lists in plain text.