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Discount   /dɪskˈaʊnt/  /dˈɪskaʊnt/   Listen
Discount

noun
1.
The act of reducing the selling price of merchandise.  Synonyms: deduction, price reduction.
2.
Interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan.  Synonyms: bank discount, discount rate.
3.
A refund of some fraction of the amount paid.  Synonym: rebate.
4.
An amount or percentage deducted.  Synonym: deduction.
verb
(past & past part. discounted; pres. part. discounting)
1.
Bar from attention or consideration.  Synonyms: brush aside, brush off, dismiss, disregard, ignore, push aside.
2.
Give a reduction in price on.



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"Discount" Quotes from Famous Books



... allowing for some difference in their extent, was about the same on both, varying in amount from L1,000 to L1,300 per week; yet the unfinished British railway was at L40 premium in the market,—the unfinished Irish one at L2 discount. ...
— The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) - With Notices Of Earlier Irish Famines • John O'Rourke
... The wicked forgive themselves so quickly, if even they find any need of it, that every body else is supposed to do the same. With this I have no patience. A wrong unrepented of and unatoned gathers interest, instead of getting discount, from lost time. And so I hated that ...
— Erema - My Father's Sin • R. D. Blackmore
... modest and unassuming. I did not know for a long time how good a title he had to the appellation, 'Buffalo Bill.' I am apt to discount the claims of scouts, as they will occasionally exaggerate; and when I found one who said nothing about himself, I did not think much of him, till I had proved him. He is a natural gentleman in his manners as well as in character, and ...
— The Life of Hon. William F. Cody - Known as Buffalo Bill The Famous Hunter, Scout and Guide • William F. Cody
... remissness. The consequence was appalling. Instead of money Treasury notes were given them, and speculators of the lowest type used to scour the tobacco-growing districts to buy up this paper at an enormous discount. The misery of the natives was so distressing, the distrust of the Government so radicate, and the want of means of existence so urgent, that they were wont to yield their claims for an insignificant relative specie value. The speculators held the bonds ...
— The Philippine Islands • John Foreman
... of the Bill beyond this stage has been assured long before by the tactics of Mr. Redmond, whose passion for justice, like Mr. Asquith's passion for popular government, is so curiously monosexual. The only discount from the Union's winnings is that it gave mendacious M.P.'s, anxious to back out of woman suffrage, a soft bed to ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 21 - The Recent Days (1910-1914) • Charles F. Horne, Editor


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