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  • noun Plural form of markdown.

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Examples

  • Markets, for instance, dropped the price on thousands of staples for 90 days, alerting customers to the long-term markdowns in print, TV, and radio ads, as well on tags throughout the store.

    Supermarkets doing more to help consumers muddle through 2009

  • Markets, for instance, dropped the price on thousands of staples for 90 days, alerting customers to the long-term markdowns in print, TV, and radio ads, as well on tags throughout the store.

    Supermarkets doing more to help consumers muddle through 2009

  • I never pay full retail price from coldwater, too expensive, but the markdowns are awesome!

    Year Around Feminine Fashions 2007

  • A spokeswoman called the markdowns "incremental promotions versus last year."

    Big Discounts Fail to Lure Shoppers 2008

  • "H&M is not as active as its competitors when it comes to markdowns, which is bad for like-for-like sales but good for margins."

    ireland.com Breaking News 2009

  • I would suggest, again from a size sense of magnitude, that the call out of the markdowns is a significant one and the year-over-year comparison markdown rate this year versus last year would have a significant impact on the improved margin.

    pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2009

  • I would suggest, again from a size sense of magnitude, that the call out of the markdowns is a significant one and the year-over-year comparison markdown rate this year versus last year would have a significant impact on the improved margin.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

  • I would suggest, again from a size sense of magnitude, that the call out of the markdowns is a significant one and the year-over-year comparison markdown rate this year versus last year would have a significant impact on the improved margin.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

  • What's more, retailers can't share the pain with suppliers, as they do with national brands that offer allowances for markdowns, meaning retailer profits will suffer.

    Exclusive Lines 2008

  • We should, the markdowns, we walked away from the markdowns which is part of why the margin rate improved so that was kind of purposeful, of course walking away from those markdowns, but we should have offset it elsewhere in the assortments.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

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