Discount

Pronunciation

• Verb:
• in some senses enPR: dÄ­skount', IPA: /dɪsˈkaÊŠnt/
• in some senses enPR: dÄ­s'kount, IPA: /ˈdɪskaÊŠnt/
• Noun and adjective:
• enPR: dÄ­s'kount, IPA: /ˈdɪskaÊŠnt/
• Rhymes: -aÊŠnt

Origin

Alteration of French descompte, décompte, from Old French disconter, desconter ("reckon off, account back, discount"), from Medieval Latin discomputare ("to deduct, discount"), from Latin dis ("away") + computare ("to reckon, count").

Full definition of discount

Verb

1. To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of.Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.
2. To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
• WalshDiscount only unexceptionable paper.
3. To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
4. To leave out of account; to take no notice of.
• Sir William HamiltonOf 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.
5. To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.

Noun

1. A reduction in price.
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.
3. The rate of interest charged in discounting.

Synonyms

• (reduction in price) rebate, reduction

Antonyms

• surcharge

Derived terms

• quantity discount
• rediscount
• seasonal discount

Descendants

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Adjective

1. Of goods, available at reduced prices; discounted.This store specializes in discount wares.
2. Of a store, specializing in goods at reduced prices.If you're looking for cheap clothes, there's a discount clothier around the corner.

Anagrams

• conduits, ductions