Definition of "discount"

discount

/dɪsˈkaʊnt/

verb
third-person singular simple present discounts, present participle discounting, simple past and past participle discounted
1. To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like.
2. To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest.
  Quotations
  Discount only unexceptionable paper.
  1692, William Walsh, Letter on the present state of the Currency of Great Britain
3. To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
4. To leave out of account or regard as unimportant.
  Quotations
  Of the three opinions, (I discount Brown's), under this head, one supposes that the law of Causality is a positive affirmation, and a primary fact of thought, incapable of all further analysis.
  1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons
5. To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount
6. (psychology, transactional analysis) To believe, or act as though one believes, that one's own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.
noun
plural discounts
1. A reduction in price.
2. (finance) A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
3. The rate of interest charged in discounting.
4. (figurative) A lack or shortcoming.
  Quotations
  On our approaching the house where the Misses Spenlow lived, I was at such a discount in respect of my personal looks and presence of mind, that Traddles proposed a gentle stimulant in the form of a glass of ale.
  1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850
5. (psychology, 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.
adjective
not comparable
1. (of a store) Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.

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