Discount

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Discount \Dis"count`\ (?; 277), v. i.
     To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the
     discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Discount \Dis"count`\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Discounted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discounting}.] [OF. desconter,
     descompter, to deduct, F. d['e]compter to discount; pref.
     des- (L. dis-) + conter, compter. See {Count}, v.]
     1. 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.
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     2. To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance
        for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of
        exchange.
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              Discount only unexceptionable paper.  --Walsh.
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     3. To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and
        form conclusions concerning (an event).
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     4. To leave out of account; to take no notice of. [R.]
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              Of the three opinions (I discount Brown's). --Sir W.
                                                    Hamilton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Discount \Dis"count`\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]compte. See {Discount},
     v. t.]
     1. 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.
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     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.
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     3. The rate of interest charged in discounting.
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     {At a discount}, below par, or below the nominal value;
        hence, colloquially, out of favor; poorly esteemed;
        depreciated.
  
     {Bank discount}, a sum equal to the interest at a given rate
        on the principal (face) of a bill or note from the time of
        discounting until it become due.
  
     {Discount broker}, one who makes a business of discounting
        commercial paper; a bill broker.
  
     {Discount day}, a particular day of the week when a bank
        discounts bills.
  
     {True discount}, the interest which, added to a principal,
        will equal the face of a note when it becomes due. The
        principal yielding this interest is the present value of
        the note.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  discount
       n 1: the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise [syn: {price
            reduction}, {deduction}]
       2: interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan
          [syn: {discount rate}, {bank discount}]
       3: a refund of some fraction of the amount paid [syn: {rebate}]
       4: an amount or percentage deducted [syn: {deduction}]
       v 1: bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his
            advances" [syn: {dismiss}, {disregard}, {brush aside}, {brush
            off}, {push aside}, {ignore}]
       2: give a reduction in price on; "I never discount these
          books-they sell like hot cakes"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  108 Moby Thesaurus words for "discount":
     abate, abatement, abjure, abuse, admit, admit exceptions, allow,
     allow for, allowance, bate, belittle, blink at, borrow,
     brush aside, brush off, charge off, chuck, chuck out, concede,
     consider, consider the circumstances, consider the source, contemn,
     contradict, cut, decline, deduct, deduction, deny, depreciate,
     derogate, despise, detract from, diminish, disapprove, discard,
     disclaim, discount notes, disdain, dismiss, disown, disparage,
     dispraise, disregard, draw back, except, exclude, fail, forget,
     forswear, gloss over, grant, ignore, kick back, knock off, lend,
     lessen, lift temporarily, lower, make allowance,
     make allowance for, mark down, minimize, omit, overlook, overpass,
     pass by, pass over, pass up, provide for, push aside, rebate,
     rebuff, recant, reduce, reduction, refund, refuse,
     refuse to consider, reject, relax, relax the condition, renounce,
     repel, repudiate, repulse, scout, set aside, shave, shove away,
     slight, spurn, subtract, subtraction, take, take a premium,
     take account of, take away, take into account,
     take into consideration, take off, take out, throw away, throw out,
     turn away, turn out, waive, write off
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  DISCOUNT, practice. A set off, or defalcation in an action. Vin. Ab. h.t. 
  DISCOUNT, contracts. An allowance made upon prompt payment in the purchase 
  of goods; it is also the interest allowed in advancing money upon bills of 
  exchange, or other negotiable securities due at a future time And to 
  discount, signifies the act of buying a bill of exchange, or promissory note 
  for a less sum than that which upon its face, is payable. 
       2. Among merchants, the term used when a bill of exchange is 
  transferred, is, that the bill is sold, and not that it is discounted. See 
  Poth. De l'Usure, n. 128 3 Pet. R. 40.