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Definition of Discounting

1. discount [v] - See also: discount

Medical Definition of Discounting

1. A method of converting future dollars into present values, accounting for interest costs or forgone investment income. Used to convert a future payment into a value that is equivalent to a payment now. (05 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Discounting

Literary usage of Discounting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"All contracts that hereafter may be made by individuals for the purpose of forming themselves into any association or company, for discounting and issuing ..."

2. The London Money Market: A Practical Guide to what it Is, where it Is, and by William Frederick Spalding (1922)
"Yours faithfully, CDE, Forward Discounting. Manager. Before leaving this subject of the discounting of bills of exchange there is one other operation to ..."

3. A Treatise on the Law of Usury by Sir Robert Buckley Comyn (1834)
"FOR Discounting AND NEGOTIATING BILLS. In what cases such commission may be claimed must now be the object of our inquiry. ..."

4. Report of the One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Round Table on Transport by SourceOECD (Online service) (2005)
"The first economic studies on discounting are now quite old. ... In the light of this work, it can only be said that the discounting rate represents more ..."

5. Banking Practice: A Textbook for Colleges and Schools of Business Administration by Loyd Helvetius Langston, Nathan Ruggles Whitney (1921)
"The chief risk attached to the discounting of commercial paper is largely ... Discounting an Aid in Marketing Products.—The discounting of commercial paper ..."

6. Higher Arithmetic by Wooster Woodruff Beman, David Eugene Smith (1900)
"Discounting NOTES. Merchants frequently take notes from their customers, running 1, 2, or 3 mo. or even longer, and drawing interest. ..."

7. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"Deducting Interest In advance from the face of a loan Is authorized by a charter provision for discounting at a specified rate. Bank of Alexandria т. ..."

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