discount
verbnounadjectivecommon in dialogue
- //dɪˈskaʊnt//
To sell at a reduced price.
verb
- 1
To sell at a reduced price.
Sales were slow even after the shop discounted the product.
- 2
rareTo deduct from an account, debt, charge, etc.
Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.
- 3
To disregard or regard as unimportant.
Owing to his reputation, they discounted his comments.
Of 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.
- 4
To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest.
The banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
The company's directors were chagrined to learn that banks were suddenly refusing to discount its notes.
Discount only unexceptionable paper.
- 5
To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
The market has dropped, discounting changes in interest rates.
- 6
To believe, or act as though one believes, that one's own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.
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.
noun
- 1
A reduction in price.
For the summer sale, there was 40% discount in all the stores at the mall.
This store offers discounts on all its wares. That store specializes in discount wares, too.
- 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.
- 4
figurativeA lack or shortcoming.
On our approaching the house where the Misses Spenlow lived, I was at such a discount in respect of my personal looks and presence of mind, that Traddles proposed a gentle stimulant in the form of a glass of ale.
- 5
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
- 1
Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.
If you're looking for cheap clothes, there's a discount clothier around the corner.
Forms
- plural
- discounts
- past tense
- discounted
- past participle
- discounted
- present participle
- discounting
- third person singular
- discounts