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DISCOUNT
discount, price reduction, deduction
(noun) the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise
deduction, discount
(noun) an amount or percentage deducted
rebate, discount
(noun) a refund of some fraction of the amount paid
dismiss, disregard, brush aside, brush off, discount, push aside, ignore
(verb) bar from attention or consideration; “She dismissed his advances”
discount
(verb) give a reduction in price on; “I never discount these books-they sell like hot cakes”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
discount (third-person singular simple present discounts, present participle discounting, simple past and past participle discounted)
To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like.
To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest
To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
To leave out of account or regard as unimportant.
To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount
(psychology, transactional analysis) To believe, or act as though one believes, that one's own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.
Noun
discount (plural discounts)
A reduction in price.
(finance) A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
The rate of interest charged in discounting.
(psychology, transactional analysis) The act of one who believes, or act as though they believe, that their own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.
Synonyms
• (reduction in price): rebate, reduction
Antonyms
• surcharge
Adjective
discount (not comparable)
(of a, store) Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.
Anagrams
• conduits, ductions, noctuids
Source: Wiktionary
Dis"count`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Discounted; p. pr. & vb. n. Discounting.] Etym: [OF. desconter, descompter, to deduct, F. décompter to discount; pref. des- (L. dis-) + conter, compter. See Count, v.]
1. To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.
2. To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange. Discount only unexceptionable paper. Walsh.
3. To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
4. To leave out of account; to take no notice of. [R.] Of the three opinions (I discount Brown's). Sir W. Hamilton.
Dis"count`, v. i.
Definition: To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.
Dis"count`, n. Etym: [Cf. F. décompte. See Discount, v. t.]
1. A counting off or deduction made from a gross sum on any account whatever; an allowance upon an account, debt, demand, price asked, and the like; something taken or deducted.
2. A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
3. The rate of interest charged in discounting. At a discount, below par, or below the nominal value; hence, colloquially, out of favor; poorly esteemed; depreciated.
– Bank discount, a sum equal to the interest at a given rate on the principal (face) of a bill or note from the time of discounting until it become due.
– Discount broker, one who makes a business of discounting commercial paper; a bill broker.
– Discount day, a particular day of the week when a bank discounts bills.
– True discount, the interest which, added to a principal, will equal the face of a note when it becomes due. The principal yielding this interest is the present value of the note.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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