markdown
markdown Lexical Profile
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• noun
A reduction in the selling price of an item or commodity, typically implemented by a retailer to stimulate sales or clear out older inventory.
"The department store offered a steep markdown on all winter coats at the end of the season."
A lightweight plain-text markup language (often capitalized as Markdown) that uses simple punctuation conventions to format documents and convert them into HTML or other rich-text formats.
"The software developers wrote the project documentation in Markdown so it could be easily read and rendered on the repository."
Word Nuance & Usage
The noun 'markdown' is written as a single closed word, whereas the corresponding phrasal verb 'mark down' (meaning to reduce a price or deduct points) is written as two separate words.
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