Definition of Discount
1. Noun. The act of reducing the selling price of merchandise.
Generic synonyms: Decrease, Diminution, Reduction, Step-down
2. Verb. Bar from attention or consideration. "She dismissed his advances"
Specialized synonyms: Cold-shoulder, Slight, Discredit, Shrug Off, Pass Off, Flout, Scoff, Turn A Blind Eye, Laugh Away, Laugh Off, Disoblige
Generic synonyms: Reject
Derivative terms: Brush-off, Dismissive, Disregard, Disregard
3. Noun. Interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan.
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"
5. Noun. A refund of some fraction of the amount paid.
Generic synonyms: Refund
Specialized synonyms: Rent-rebate
Derivative terms: Rebate
6. Noun. An amount or percentage deducted.
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]
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Discount
Literary usage of Discount
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1. Auditing Theory and Practice by Robert Hiester Montgomery (1912)
"discount for Prepayment: There is some difference between interest received on
notes receivable from customers and cash discounts allowed by creditors for ..."
2. The Scholar's Arithmetic, Or, Federal Accountant ...: The Whole in a Form by Daniel Adams (1833)
"discount. ш,^шт discount is an allowance made for the payment of any sum of money
before it becomes due, and is the difference between that sum, ..."
3. Daboll's Schoolmaster's Assistant: Improved and Enlarged, Being a Plain by Nathan Daboll, Samuel Green (1841)
"discount, IS an allowance made for the payment of any sum m money belore it ...
Subtract the discount from the "iven sui::, and tfic remainder is the ..."
4. 20th Century Bookkeeping and Accounting: A Treatise on Modern Bookkeeping by James Williams Baker (1918)
"It Is Customary In Business to allow a special discount for prompt payment of
... This discount is indicated in the terms on the invoice or bill (ยง 166). ..."
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