discount
//dɪˈskaʊnt//
Forms
- present (v1)
- discount
- past (v2)
- discounted
- past participle (v3)
- discounted
- present participle
- discounting
- 3rd person singular
- discounts
- Plural
- discounts
Definitions
1.To sell at a reduced price.
- Sales were slow even after the shop discounted the product.
2.To disregard or regard as unimportant.
- Owing to his reputation, they discounted his comments.
- Of the three opinions, (I discount Brown's), under this head, one supposes that the law of Causality is a positive affirmation, and a primary fact of thought, incapable of all further analysis.
3.To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
- The market has dropped, discounting changes in interest rates.
4.To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest.
- The banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
- The company's directors were chagrined to learn that banks were suddenly refusing to discount its notes.
1.A reduction in price.
- For the summer sale, there was 40% discount in all the stores at the mall.
- This store offers discounts on all its wares. That store specializes in discount wares, too.
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.A lack or shortcoming.
- On our approaching the house where the Misses Spenlow lived, I was at such a discount in respect of my personal looks and presence of mind, that Traddles proposed a gentle stimulant in the form of a glass of ale.
4.The rate of interest charged in discounting.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4665
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
Alteration of French descompte, décompte, from Old French disconter, desconter (“reckon off, account back, discount”), from Medieval Latin discomputō (“to deduct, discount”), from Latin dis- (“away”) + computō (“to reckon, count”).
By surface analysis, dis- + count.