Discount : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Discount	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
discount n the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise [syn: discount, price reduction, deduction] interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan Synonym(s): discount rate, discount, bank discount a refund of some fraction of the amount paid Synonym(s): rebate, discount an amount or percentage deducted Synonym(s): deduction, discount v bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances" Synonym(s): dismiss, disregard, brush aside, brush off, discount, push aside, ignore give a reduction in price on; "I never discount these books- they sell like hot cakes"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Discount \Dis"count`\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Discounted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discounting}.] [OF. desconter, descompter, to deduct, F. d[82]compter to discount; pref. des- (L. dis-) + conter, compter. See {Count}, v.] 1. 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. 2. To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange. Discount only unexceptionable paper. --Walsh. 3. To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event). 4. To leave out of account; to take no notice of. [R.] Of the three opinions (I discount Brown's). --Sir W. Hamilton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Discount \Dis"count`\ (?; 277), v. i. To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Discount \Dis"count`\, n. [Cf. F. d[82]compte. See {Discount}, v. t.] 1. 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. 2. 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. {At a discount}, below par, or below the nominal value; hence, colloquially, out of favor; poorly esteemed; depreciated. {Bank discount}, a sum equal to the interest at a given rate on the principal (face) of a bill or note from the time of discounting until it become due. {Discount broker}, one who makes a business of discounting commercial paper; a bill broker. {Discount day}, a particular day of the week when a bank discounts bills. {True discount}, the interest which, added to a principal, will equal the face of a note when it becomes due. The principal yielding this interest is the present value of the note.