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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



... provide education, &c., in later life. The view, formerly widely accepted, that membership of a large family is in itself a valuable contribution to education and to the training of responsible citizens, appears to be at a discount, and many parents now consider that advantages which can be given to a child as a result of family limitation outweigh the natural advantages of a large family in which the ...
— Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Various Aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand • David G. McMillan
... dogma that woman ought to have the same pay for the same work—fatuous because it leaves out of sight that woman's commercial value in many of the best fields of work is subject to a very heavy discount by reason of the fact that she cannot, like a male employee, work cheek by jowl with a male employer; nor work among men as a man with his ...
— The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage • Almroth E. Wright
... acquire that character it is necessary to appear in the dress of a Merry Andrew, to bully, swagger, and smoke continually, to dance passably, and to strum the guitar. They are fond of obscenity and what they term PICARDIAS. Amongst them learning is at a terrible discount, Greek, Latin, or any of the languages generally termed learned, being considered in any light but accomplishments, but not so the possession of thieves' slang or the dialect of the Gitanos, the knowledge of a few words of which invariably ...
— The Zincali - An Account of the Gypsies of Spain • George Borrow
... has my shoemaker's bill calls, let him be answered that I shall call on him as I come home. I stay here in order to get Jonson to discount a bill for me, and shall dine with him for that end. He is ...
— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray
... out-reason so extraordinary an applicant, but it was still more impossible to grant her request. Skilled as the banker was in the delicate and difficult art of saying "No," it had to be said oftener and more distinctly to Jane Melville than to the most pertinacious of customers, to whom discount must ...
— Mr. Hogarth's Will • Catherine Helen Spence


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