Definition of discount

noun (n)

• the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise (noun.act)

  Synonym: deduction, price reduction
  

  source: wordnet30
• interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan (noun.possession)

  Synonym: bank discount, discount rate
  

  source: wordnet30
• a refund of some fraction of the amount paid (noun.possession)

  Synonym: rebate
  

  source: wordnet30
• an amount or percentage deducted (noun.possession)

  Synonym: deduction
  

  source: wordnet30
• 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. (noun)

  source: webster1913

verb (v)

• bar from attention or consideration (verb.communication)

  Synonym: brush aside, brush off, dismiss, disregard, ignore, push aside
  

  source: wordnet30
• give a reduction in price on (verb.possession)

  Example:
  I never discount these books-they sell like hot cakes.
  

  source: wordnet30
• 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)

  source: webster1913
• To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days. (verb)

  source: webster1913

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