Discount

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  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To sell or offer for sale at a reduced price.
  • transitive verb. To reduce in quantity or value.
  • transitive verb. To deduct or subtract from a cost or price.
  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To determine the present value of (a future payment or series of payments).
  • transitive verb. To price (a bond or other debt security) at a reduction to its face value, especially in place of a coupon.
  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To disregard or doubt (something) as being exaggerated or untrustworthy.
  • transitive verb. To underestimate the significance or effectiveness of; minimize.
  • transitive verb. To anticipate and make allowance for; reckon with in advance.
  • noun. A reduction from the full or standard amount of a price or value.
  • noun. The amount by which the face value of a bond or other debt security exceeds its market price.
  • adjective. Offering products or services for sale at low or reduced prices.
  • adjective. Sold or offered for sale at a low or reduced price.
  • adjective. Reduced in quantity or value.
  • adjective. Priced below face value, especially in place of a coupon.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An allowance or deduction, generally of so much per cent., made for prepayment or for prompt payment of a bill or account; a sum deducted, in consideration of cash payment, from the price of a thing usually sold on credit; any deduction from the customary price, or from a sum due or to be due at a future time.
  • noun. In finance, the rate per cent. deducted from the face value of a promissory note, bill of exchange, etc., when purchasing the privilege of collecting its amount at maturity.
  • noun. The act of discounting: as, a note is lodged in the bank for discount; the banks have suspended discounts.
  • noun. In billiards, an allowance made by a superior to an inferior player of a deduction of one count from his string for every count made by the latter.
  • To reckon off or deduct in settlement; make a reduction of: as, to discount 5 per cent. for cash payment of a bill.
  • To leave out of account; disregard.
  • In finance, to purchase, or pay the amount of in cash, less a certain rate per cent., as a promissory note, bill of exchange, etc., to be collected by the discounter or purchaser at maturity: as, to discount a bill or a claim at 7 per cent. Compare negotiate.
  • Hence To make a deduction from; put a reduced estimate or valuation upon; make an allowance for exaggeration or excess in: as, to discount a braggart's story; to discount an improbable piece of news.
  • To reckon or act upon in advance; diminish by anticipation the interest, pleasure, etc., of; take for granted as going to happen: as, to discount one's future prospects; to discount the pleasure of a journey.
  • In billiards, to allow discount to: as, to discount an inferior player. See discount, n., 4.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of.
  • transitive verb. To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest.
  • transitive verb. To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
  • transitive verb. To leave out of account; to take no notice of.
  • intransitive verb. To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
  • noun. The rate of interest charged in discounting.
  • noun. below par, or below the nominal value; hence, colloquially, out of favor; poorly esteemed; depreciated.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. one who makes a business of discounting commercial paper; a bill broker.
  • noun. a particular day of the week when a bank discounts bills.
  • noun. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. 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.
  • verb. To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
  • verb. To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
  • verb. To leave out of account; to take no notice of.
  • verb. To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.
  • noun. A reduction in price.
  • noun. A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
  • noun. The rate of interest charged in discounting.
  • adjective. Of goods, available at reduced prices; discounted.
  • adjective. Of a store, specializing in goods at reduced prices.
  • Word Usage
    "Till 17 February you can get discount of 20% using a coupon «discount»!"
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    surcharge  
    cross-reference
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    Rhyme
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    Mt  account  amount  count  miscount  
    Same Context
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    Viagra  bonus  buy  cash  coupon  
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    abate  abatement  abjure  abuse  admit  
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