Definitions for discount

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discount dis·count

Spelling: [verb dis-kount, dis-kount; noun, adjective

IPA: /verb ˈdɪs kaʊnt, dɪsˈkaʊnt; noun, adjective ˈdɪs kaʊnt/

Discount is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 323 anagrams from letters in discount (cdinostu).

Definitions for discount

noun

1. the act or an instance of discounting.
2. an amount deducted from the usual list price.
3. any deduction from the nominal value.
4. a payment of interest in advance upon a loan of money.
5. the amount of interest obtained by one who discounts.
6. an allowance made for exaggeration or bias, as in a report, story, etc.:

Idioms

1. at a discount, Commerce. below par. below the usual list price. in low esteem or regard: not in demand; unwanted:

adjective

1. selling or offered at less than the usual or established price:
2. selling goods at a discount:

verb (used with object)

1. to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.):
2. to offer for sale or sell at a reduced price:
3. to advance or lend money with deduction of interest on (commercial paper not immediately payable).
4. to purchase or sell (a bill or note) before maturity at a reduction based on the interest for the time it still has to run.
5. to leave out of account; disregard:
6. to allow for exaggeration in (a statement, opinion, etc.):
7. to take into account in advance, often so as to diminish the effect of:

verb (used without object)

1. to advance or lend money after deduction of interest.
2. to offer goods or services at a reduced price.

Origin of discount

1615-25; dis-¹ + count¹, modeled on French décompter, Old French desconter Medieval Latin discomputāre

Examples for discount

He cannot ask his friends to assist him in the discount of bills.

Target was established in 1962 by the Dayton brothers as a discount offshoot of their eponymous Twin Cities department store.

But I wouldn't wonder if those remarks was subject to a discount.

The idea behind Groupon is pretty simple: If you discount the price of something, then people are more likely to buy it.

Even in Boston, mellowed though it was by culture, the classical was at a discount.

I think we discount things that affect the mind and worry too much about the body.

In other words, because I am not like that, I can discount what you are saying.

Two and two are four and three are seven—take off the discount.

Social reformers are not in request there, however, and morality is at a discount.

So we would not discount that there is a future in the Alicia-Finn relationship.