'Discount' definitions:
Definition of 'discount'
From: WordNet
noun
The act of reducing the selling price of merchandise [syn: discount, price reduction, deduction]
noun
Interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan [syn: discount rate, discount, bank discount]
noun
A refund of some fraction of the amount paid [syn: rebate, discount]
noun
An amount or percentage deducted [syn: deduction, discount]
verb
Bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances" [syn: dismiss, disregard, brush aside, brush off, discount, push aside, ignore]
verb
Give a reduction in price on; "I never discount these books- they sell like hot cakes"
Definition of 'Discount'
From: GCIDE
- Discount \Dis"count`\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Discounted; p. pr. & vb. n. Discounting.] [OF. desconter, descompter, to deduct, F. d['e]compter to discount; pref. des- (L. dis-) + conter, compter. See Count, v.]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange. [1913 Webster]
- Discount only unexceptionable paper. --Walsh. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event). [1913 Webster]
- 4. To leave out of account; to take no notice of. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- Of the three opinions (I discount Brown's). --Sir W. Hamilton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Discount'
From: GCIDE
- Discount \Dis"count`\ (?; 277), v. i. To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Discount'
From: GCIDE
- Discount \Dis"count`\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]compte. See Discount, v. t.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The rate of interest charged in discounting. [1913 Webster]
- At a discount, below par, or below the nominal value; hence, colloquially, out of favor; poorly esteemed; depreciated.
- Bank discount, a sum equal to the interest at a given rate on the principal (face) of a bill or note from the time of discounting until it become due.
- Discount broker, one who makes a business of discounting commercial paper; a bill broker.
- Discount day, a particular day of the week when a bank discounts bills.
- True discount, the interest which, added to a principal, will equal the face of a note when it becomes due. The principal yielding this interest is the present value of the note. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'discount'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abate,
- abatement,
- abjure,
- abuse,
- admit,
- admit exceptions,
- allow,
- allow for,
- allowance,
- bate,
- belittle,
- blink at,
- borrow,
- brush aside,
- brush off,
- charge off,
- chuck,
- chuck out,
- concede,
- consider,
- consider the circumstances,
- consider the source,
- contemn,
- contradict,
- cut,
- decline,
- deduct,
- deduction,
- deny,
- depreciate,
- derogate,
- despise,
- detract from,
- diminish,
- disapprove,
- discard,
- disclaim,
- discount notes,
- disdain,
- dismiss,
- disown,
- disparage,
- dispraise,
- disregard,
- draw back,
- except,
- exclude,
- fail,
- forget,
- forswear,
- gloss over,
- grant,
- ignore,
- kick back,
- knock off,
- lend,
- lessen,
- lift temporarily,
- lower,
- make allowance,
- make allowance for,
- mark down,
- minimize,
- omit,
- overlook,
- overpass,
- pass by,
- pass over,
- pass up,
- provide for,
- push aside,
- rebate,
- rebuff,
- recant,
- reduce,
- reduction,
- refund,
- refuse,
- refuse to consider,
- reject,
- relax,
- relax the condition,
- renounce,
- repel,
- repudiate,
- repulse,
- scout,
- set aside,
- shave,
- shove away,
- slight,
- spurn,
- subtract,
- subtraction,
- take,
- take a premium,
- take account of,
- take away,
- take into account,
- take into consideration,
- take off,
- take out,
- throw away,
- throw out,
- turn away,
- turn out,
- waive,
- write off