English to English noun
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the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise | | source: wordnet30
2 |
interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan | | source: wordnet30
3 |
a refund of some fraction of the amount paid | | source: wordnet30
4 |
an amount or percentage deducted | | source: wordnet30
5 |
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. | | source: webster1913 verb
6 |
bar from attention or consideration | | Example: She dismissed his advances
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7 |
give a reduction in price on | | Example: I never discount these books-they sell like hot cakes
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8 |
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. | | source: webster1913
9 |
To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days. | | source: webster1913
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