discount
See also: Discount
English
Etymology
Alteration of French descompte, décompte, from Old French disconter, desconter (“reckon off, account back, discount”), from Medieval Latin discomputō (“I deduct, discount”), from Latin dis- (“away”) + computō (“I reckon, count”).
Pronunciation
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.
- Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.
- To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest
- the banks discount notes and bills of exchange
- (Can we date this quote by Walsh and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Discount only unexceptionable paper.
- To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
- To leave out of account or regard as unimportant.
- (Can we date this quote by Sir William Hamilton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- 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.
- They discounted his comments.
- (Can we date this quote by Sir William Hamilton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- 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.
Translations
to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
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to lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest
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to take into consideration beforehand
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to leave out of account
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to lend, or make a practice of lending, money
Noun
discount (plural discounts)
- A reduction in price.
- This store offers discounts on all its wares. That store specializes in discount wares, too.
- 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.
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Descendants
- German: Discount
Translations
reduction in price
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deduction made for interest
rate of interest charged in discounting
Adjective
discount (not comparable)
- (of a store) Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.
- If you're looking for cheap clothes, there's a discount clothier around the corner.
Further reading
- “discount”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “discount”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “discount”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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discount m (uncountable)
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