1. a reduction in the selling price of an item
Usage: business
2. a lightweight markup language used for formatting plain text
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.