discount
Etymology
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Etymology
Alteration of French descompte, décompte, from Old French disconter, desconter ("reckon off, account back, discount"), from Medieval Latin discomputō, from Latin dis- + computō ("I reckon, count").
Pronunciation- Verb:
- Noun and adjective:
discount (discounts, present participle discounting; simple past and past participle discounted)
To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like. - Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.
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). To leave out of account or regard as unimportant. - They discounted his comments.
- They discounted his suggestion.
- They discounted his idea.
- 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, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount
- (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.
- German: nachlassen, Nachlass gewähren, einen Rabatt gewähren, abziehen
- German: einkalkulieren, einberechnen, mitberücksichtigen, mit in Betracht ziehen
- German: außer Acht lassen, unberücksichtigt lassen, abtun
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.
- French: rabais, discompte, promotion
- German: Rabatt, Preisnachlass, Nachlass, Ermäßigung
- Italian: sconto
- Portuguese: desconto, abatimento
- Russian: ски́дка
- Spanish: descuento, rebaja
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.
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