discount

  • (noun): A reduction in price.
  • (noun): A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
  • (noun): The rate of interest charged in discounting.
  • (noun): (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.
  • (verb): To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest
  • (verb): To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
  • (verb): To leave out of account or regard as unimportant.
  • (verb): To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount
  • (verb): (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.
  • This store offers discounts on all its wares. That store specializes in discount wares, too.
  • Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.
  • the banks discount notes and bills of exchange
  • They discounted his comments.
  • If you're looking for cheap clothes, there's a discount clothier around the corner.