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1 knock down
гл.1)а) общ. сломать, разрушитьб) общ. разбирать на частиThe furniture has been knocked down ready for the buyer to put it together himself. — Мебель разбирается на детали таким образом, чтобы покупатель мог собрать ее сам.
в) общ. опровергнуть, разбить (довод, теорию)2) торг. продавать с аукциона ( ударом молотка объявлять товар проданным на аукционе)to knock the item down for $250 — продать предмет (на аукционе) за $250
The auctioneer would take a further bid of $50 on your behalf and if there was no further bidding from the floor, knock the item down to you for $250.
In that case, the printed catalogue at an auction sale stated that each lot was subject to a reserve price, but the auctioneer knocked the goods down to the plaintiff for less than the reserved price by mistake. — В данном судебном прецеденте в отпечатанном каталоге аукциона было сказано, что продажа каждого лота ограничена резервной ценой, однако аукционист продал товары с аукциона истцу по цене, меньшей, чем резервная, по ошибке.
See:3) эк. понижать ценыto knock down the price to $10 a barrel — понизить цену до 10 долларов за баррель
The price was knocked down to $3. — Цену сбили до трех долларов.
Syn:knock off 2)See:4) общ., амер., сленг зарабатывать, заколачивать ( деньги)That's because Lay knocked down tons of money — a five-year total of at least $325 million in salary, bonuses, stock-option gains and stock sales to the company — for a job he couldn't have been doing properly if he really had no idea what was going on.
5) общ., австр., сленг прожить, спустить ( деньги)
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