discount

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English

Wikipedia

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Etymology

Alteration of French décompte, from Old French disconter, desconter (“reckon off, account back, discount”), from Medieval Latin discomputare (“to deduct, discount”), from Latin dis (“away”) + computare (“to reckon, count”).

Pronunciation

• Verb:
  • (in some senses) enPR: dĭskount', IPA: /dɪsˈkaʊnt/, SAMPA: /dIs"kaUnt/
  • (in some senses) enPR: dĭs'kount, IPA: /ˈdɪskaʊnt/, SAMPA: /"dIskaUnt/
• Noun and adjective:
  • enPR: dĭs'kount, IPA: /ˈdɪskaʊnt/, SAMPA: /"dIskaUnt/

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• Rhymes: -aʊnt

Verb

discount (third-person singular simple present discounts, present participle discounting, simple past and past participle discounted)

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.
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.
5. To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.

Noun

discount (plural discounts)

1. A reduction in price.
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.

Synonyms

• (reduction in price): rebate, reduction

Antonyms

• surcharge

Derived terms

• quantity discount
• rediscount
• seasonal discount

Descendants

• German: Discount

Translations

reduction in price

Arabic: خصم (ar) (khaSm) m., حسم (ar) (Hasm) m. Bulgarian: отбив (bg) m., отстъпка (bg) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 折扣 (zh) (zhékòu) Czech: sleva (cs) f. Danish: rabat (da) Dutch: korting (nl) c. Estonian: hinnasoodustus (et) Finnish: alennus (fi) French: rabais (fr) m. German: Rabatt (de) m., Preisnachlass (de) m. Hebrew: הנחה (he) (hanakha) f. Hindi: छूट (hi) (chūṭ) Hungarian: kedvezmény (hu), engedmény (hu) Icelandic: afsláttur (is) m. Italian: sconto (it) m. Japanese: 割引き (ja), 割り引き (ja) (わりびき, waribiki), 値引き (ja) (ねびき, nebiki), ディスカウント (ja) (disukaunto)

Korean: 할인 (ko) (har-in) Latvian: atlaide (lv) Norwegian: rabatt (no) m. Polish: opust (pl) m., zniżka (pl) f., rabat (pl) m. Portuguese: desconto (pt) m., abatimento (pt) m. Russian: скидка (ru) (skídka) f., дисконт (ru) (diskónt) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: попуст (sh) m. Roman: popust (sh) m. Slovak: zľava (sk) f. Slovene: popust (sl) m. Spanish: descuento (es) m., rebaja (es) Swedish: rabatt (sv) c., rea (sv) c. Thai: ส่วนลด (th) (sùanlót) Turkish: indirim (tr), iskonto (tr) Vietnamese: bớt giá (vi), sự bớt (vi), sự giảm (vi), sự trừ (vi), sự hạ giá (vi)

deduction made for interest

rate of interest charged in discounting

Adjective

discount (not comparable)

1. Of goods, available at reduced prices; discounted.

   This store specializes in discount wares.

2. Of a store, specializing in goods at reduced prices.

   If you're looking for cheap clothes, there's a discount clothier around the corner.

External links

• discount in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• discount in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• discount at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• conduits, ductions

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English

Noun

discount m. inv.

1. discount store