| discount | |
| 1. v. To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like. | |
| Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills. | |
| 2. v. To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest | |
| the banks discount notes and bills of exchange - | |
| 3. v. To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event). | |
| 4. v. To leave out of account or regard as unimportant. | |
| They discounted his comments. | |
| 5. v. To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount | |
| 6. n. A reduction in price. | |
| This store offers discounts on all its wares. That store specializes in discount wares, too. | |
| 7. n. A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money. | |
| 8. n. The rate of interest charged in discounting. | |
| 9. adj. (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. | |
