Verb

to discount (third-person singular simple present discounts, present participle discounting, simple past and past participle discounted)

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.
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.
5. To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.

Noun

discount (plural discounts)

1. A reduction in price.
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.

Synonyms

• (reduction in price): rebate, reduction

Antonyms

• surcharge

Derived terms

• quantity discount
• rediscount
• seasonal discount

Discount

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Discount can refer to:

• Discounts and allowances: reductions to a basic price of goods or services;
• Discounting: a financial mechanism in which a debtor obtains the right to delay payments to a creditor;
• Discount (band): a punk rock band that formed in Vero Beach, Florida, in 1995 and disbanded in 2000.