discount
See also: Discount
English
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Etymology
[edit]Alteration of French descompte, décompte, from Old French disconter, desconter (“reckon off, account back, discount”), from Medieval Latin discomputō (“I deduct, discount”), from Latin dis- (“away”) + computō (“I reckon, count”). By surface analysis, dis- + count.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Verb:
- Noun and adjective:
- Rhymes: -aʊnt
Verb
[edit]discount (third-person singular simple present discounts, present participle discounting, simple past and past participle discounted)
- (transitive)
- To sell at a reduced price.
- Sales were slow even after the shop discounted the price of the product.
- (rare) To deduct from an account, debt, charge, etc.
- Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.
- To disregard an account or regard as unimportant.
- Owing to his reputation, they discounted his comments.
- 1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
- 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.
- To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest.
- The banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
- 1692, William Walsh, Letter on the present state of the Currency of Great Britain:
- Discount only unexceptionable paper.
- To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
- The market has dropped, discounting changes in interest rates.
- To sell at a reduced price.
- (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.
Translations
[edit]to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
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to lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest
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to take into consideration beforehand
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to leave out of account
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to lend, or make a practice of lending, money
Noun
[edit]discount (plural discounts)
- A reduction in price.
- This store offers discounts on all its wares. That store specializes in discount wares, too.
- (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.
- The rate of interest charged in discounting.
- (figurative) A lack or shortcoming.
- 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
- 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.
- (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.
Synonyms
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]- German: Discount
Translations
[edit]reduction in price
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deduction made for interest
rate of interest charged in discounting
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Adjective
[edit]discount (not comparable)
- (of a store) Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.
- If you're looking for cheap clothes, there's a discount clothier around the corner.
Translations
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “discount”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “discount”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “discount”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Adjective
[edit]discount (invariable)
Noun
[edit]discount m (plural discounts)
Further reading
[edit]- “discount”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English discount store.
Noun
[edit]discount m (invariable)
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English discount.
Noun
[edit]discount n (plural discounturi)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | ||||
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| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | discount | discountul | discounturi | discounturile | |
| genitive-dative | discount | discountului | discounturi | discounturilor | |
| vocative | discountule | discounturilor | |||
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