discount
/dɪˈskaʊnt/ verb, noun, adjective
Forms discounts discounting discounted
- verb To sell at a reduced price. “Sales were slow even after the shop discounted the product.”
- verb (rare) To deduct from an account, debt, charge, etc. “Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.”
- verb To disregard or regard as unimportant. “Owing to his reputation, they discounted his comments.”
- verb To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest. “The banks discount notes and bills of exchange.”
- verb To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event). “The market has dropped, discounting changes in interest rates.”
- verb (psychology, transactional analysis) To believe, or act as though one believes, that one's own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.
- noun A reduction in price. “For the summer sale, there was 40% discount in all the stores at the mall.”
- noun (finance) A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
- noun The rate of interest charged in discounting.
- noun (figurative) A lack or shortcoming.
- noun (psychology, transactional analysis) The act of one who believes, or act as though they believe, that their own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.
- adjective (of a store) Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices. “If you're looking for cheap clothes, there's a discount clothier around the corner.”
Synonyms
rebate reduction price reduction deduction discount rate bank discount dismiss disregard brush aside brush off push aside ignore
Antonyms
Etymology
Alteration of French descompte, décompte, from Old French disconter, desconter (“reckon off, account back, discount”), from Medieval Latin discomputō (“to deduct, discount”), from Latin dis- (“away”) + computō (“to reckon, count”). By surface analysis, dis- + count.
Webster’s 1913
- verb 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.
- verb To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
- verb To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.
- noun 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.
Etymology [OF. desconter, descompter, to deduct, F. décompter to discount; pref. des- (L. dis-) + conter, compter. See Count, v.]
Etymology [Cf. F. décompte. See Discount, v. t.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “discount”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details