Meaning

To sell at a reduced price..

Definitions by Sense

1. To sell at a reduced price.
2. To deduct from an account, debt, charge, etc.
3. To disregard or regard as unimportant.
4. To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest.
5. To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
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.
7. A reduction in price.
8. (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.

Example Sentences

Sales were slow even after the shop discounted the product.

Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.

Owing to his reputation, they discounted his comments.

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.

The banks discount notes and bills of exchange.

The company's directors were chagrined to learn that banks were suddenly refusing to discount its notes.

Discount only unexceptionable paper.

The market has dropped, discounting changes in interest rates.

Word Forms

• discounts
• discounting
• discounted

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Use discount when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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