discount
IPA: dɪskˈaʊnt
noun
- A reduction in price.
- (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.
- The rate of interest charged in discounting.
- (figurative) A lack or shortcoming.
- (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.
verb
- To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like.
- To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest.
- To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
- To leave out of account or regard as unimportant.
- To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount
- (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.
adjective
- (of a store) Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.
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Examples of "discount" in Sentences
- The bank needs to cover the discount.
- The discount rate is the risk free rate.
- The fishmonger offered a discount to a little boy.
- It is the headquarters of the Israel Discount Bank.
- The price of the put is equal to the marketability discount.
- The latent danger in the west was discounted because of this.
- The authors of two of these studes discount the utility of this measure.
- Dummar was largely discounted by the public as a phony and an opportunist.
- Further, by sleight of hand, it tries to discount the controversy as a whole.
- It would be irresponsible to discount the efforts and the supporting evidence.
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