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as in to mark down

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noun

as in surcharge

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Recent Examples of mark up
Verb
Johnson told reporters Tuesday morning that Republicans hope to mark up the budget resolution for the reconciliation bill on Thursday. — Hailey Bullis, The Washington Examiner, 14 July 2026 In the past, some people found that prices have been marked up in the days leading up to Prime Day. — Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 22 June 2026
Noun
Raw inputs are extracted from the periphery, refined and assembled in the metropole, and sold back at a markup. — Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026 However, many brands continue using basic markup that provides limited context about their content, entities and relationships. — Vin Sonpal, Forbes.com, 15 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for mark up
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mark up
  1. mark down
  2. surcharge
  3. discount
  4. overcharge
  5. bring
  6. gouging
  7. fetch
Verb
  • Holiday decorations are regularly marked down after the holiday itself, per NerdWallet’s monthly guide.
    — Ashley Lynch, Kansas City Star, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Holiday decor often gets marked down right after the holiday, a pattern tracked in NerdWallet’s monthly shopping guide.
    — Ashley Lynch, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of mark down
Noun
  • Villalba soon apologized and said that the fuel surcharge was voluntary.
    — Shayla Love, New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2026
  • On Wednesday, a state appeals court overturned a lower-court ruling that had ordered New York City to redo parts of the plan to tax certain high-value secondary residences, allowing the Mamdani administration to move ahead with the surcharge.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of surcharge
Verb
  • With unbeatable comfort, support, and style, the brand offers thoughtful (and discounted) gifts Mom will actually want to wear.
    — Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 5 Nov. 2026
  • When routine conditions and genuine failures arrive with the same urgency, responders discount the signal and alert noise becomes alert fatigue.
    — Judit Sharon, Forbes.com, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of discount
Noun
  • The judge also reasoned that jurors erred in calculating damages, specifically by mistaking a discount for an overcharge.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 8 Sep. 2026
  • These have also undergone safety validation through abuse tests, which include nail penetration, overcharge, and external short-circuit testing.
    — Aditya Jadhav, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of overcharge
Verb
  • TobenONE is a Chinese tech company that specializes in workspace accessories that bring a little more order to office desks.
    — Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 7 Nov. 2026
  • DiGenova resigned from the Justice Department in September without bringing any criminal charges.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of bring
Noun
  • For Abbott and for Ken Paxton, who beat Cornyn in an eye-gouging, rabbit-punching Republican Senate primary, the answer was, for all intents, the latter.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Other advantages include the fact that ownership of compute may reduce dependency on price fluctuations and gouging.
    — Forbes.com, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
Definition of gouging
Verb
  • His market has cooled somewhat since its peak, although major paintings can still fetch eight figures.
    — Daniel Cassady for ARTnews, Robb Report, 4 Nov. 2026
  • The company has also demonstrated clone and fetch operations saturating 10-gigabit-per-second network connections.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of fetch

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“Mark up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mark%20up. Accessed 10 Nov. 2026.

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