Definition of Discount

Discount

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.

To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.

To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).

To leave out of account; to take no notice of.

To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.

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.

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.

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Discount Quotations

It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
Jackie Kennedy

Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?
Dennis Miller

Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.
Herman Wouk

We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent.
John Prescott

Most every dental school has discount dental services.
Matthew Lesko

My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.
Stockwell Day

Low-income seniors who choose to enroll in a drug discount plan will receive $600 of Federal assistance in 2004 and 2005 to further defray the costs of their medications.
Jim Gerlach

Our people get profit-sharing checks. I got a report the other day that says that 84 percent of our people participate in our stock purchase program, where they can buy stock at a 15 percent discount.
David Neeleman

Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.
James E. Rogers

There are philosophical issues involved in that about choosing the right discount rate, the value, the future, and things like that which drive it. But its start with the premise that global warming is real and if you're a denier of that fact, then you're not going to find climate change mitigation policies to have particular appeal.
Brad Carson

There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide.
Len G. Murray

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.
Mary Schmich

Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously from.
Rachel True

Discount air fares, a car in every parking space and the interstate highway system have made every place accessible - and every place alike.
Ronald Steel

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Discount Translations

discount in Afrikaans is afslag
discount in Dutch is disconto
discount in French is escompte, escomptent, escompter, remise, rabais
discount in German is Abschlag {m}, Skonto {m}, Abzug {m}, Rabatt {m}
discount in Italian is sconto
discount in Norwegian is rabatt, trekke fra
discount in Portuguese is disconto
discount in Spanish is descuento
discount in Swedish is rabatt

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