Definition of Discount

1. Noun. The act of reducing the selling price of merchandise.

Exact synonyms: Deduction, Price Reduction
Generic synonyms: Decrease, Diminution, Reduction, Step-down

2. Verb. Bar from attention or consideration. "She dismissed his advances"

3. Noun. Interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan.
Exact synonyms: Bank Discount, Discount Rate
Generic synonyms: Interest Rate, Rate Of Interest
Specialized synonyms: Bank Rate

4. Verb. Give a reduction in price on. "I never discount these books-they sell like hot cakes"
Specialized synonyms: Allow, Rebate
Generic synonyms: Mark Down
Derivative terms: Discounter

5. Noun. A refund of some fraction of the amount paid.
Exact synonyms: Rebate
Generic synonyms: Refund
Specialized synonyms: Rent-rebate
Derivative terms: Rebate

6. Noun. An amount or percentage deducted.
Exact synonyms: Deduction
Generic synonyms: Adjustment, Allowance
Specialized synonyms: Trade Discount

Definition of Discount

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

3. n. 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.

Definition of Discount

1. to reduce the price of [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Discount

discordant
discordant
discordantly
discordant alternans
discordant alternation
discordant atrioventricular connections
discordant thyroid nodule
discorded
discording
discords
discorporate
discos
discotheque
discotheques
discotomy
discount (current term)
discountable
discounted
discountenance
discountenanced
discountenances
discounter
discounters
discounting
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discounts
discount business
discount chain
discount house
discount rate

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