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Discount   /dɪskˈaʊnt/  /dˈɪskaʊnt/   Listen
Discount

noun
1.
The act of reducing the selling price of merchandise.  Synonyms: deduction, price reduction.
2.
Interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan.  Synonyms: bank discount, discount rate.
3.
A refund of some fraction of the amount paid.  Synonym: rebate.
4.
An amount or percentage deducted.  Synonym: deduction.
verb
(past & past part. discounted; pres. part. discounting)
1.
Bar from attention or consideration.  Synonyms: brush aside, brush off, dismiss, disregard, ignore, push aside.
2.
Give a reduction in price on.



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"Discount" Quotes from Famous Books



... identified with morality. I am sorry to say that in the opinion of the best of both races the average country (and city) pastor does not bear a good reputation, the estimates of the immoral running from 50 to 98 per cent. of the total number. It is far from me to discount any class of people, but if the situation is anything as represented by the estimate, the seriousness of it is evident. This idea is supported by the fact that indulgence in immorality is seldom a bar to active ...
— The Negro Farmer • Carl Kelsey
... is the region of enormous mineral wealth in silver. There are the "Terrible" and other mines whose shares you can see quoted daily in the share lists in the Times, sometimes at cent per cent premium, and then down to 25 discount. ...
— A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains • Isabella L. Bird
... pockets. His sudden trip to Europe had caused much discussion. Some knowing ones whispered that he had bought a controlling interest in the Bank of England from the assignees in bankruptcy of the Brothkinders, with the object of making a panic in trade by a sudden raise of the rate of discount to six per cent; others, that he had come over to unload upon the British public his shares in the Hudson Bay ...
— The King's Men - A Tale of To-morrow • Robert Grant, John Boyle O'Reilly, J. S. Dale, and John T.
... bereavements, the sufferings, the dark possibilities, that lay like the shadows of trees across a sunlit road—death itself, that grim horizon that closed the view whichever way one looked—the mistake lay in attempting to reckon with them beforehand, to anticipate them, to discount them. They were all part of the plan, and one could not alter them. Better to let them come, to husband strength and joy to meet them, rather than to dissipate one's courage by dwelling upon them. Indeed all Hugh's experience ...
— Beside Still Waters • Arthur Christopher Benson
... gentleman who is being relieved of what he considers at the moment his property, has no notion of giving it up without a struggle, no matter how courteously he is addressed, nor upon what exalted grounds the discussion is ranging. It is a world-old mistake of the Have-nots to discount the value which the Haves put upon their property. The Have-nots, generally speaking, hold the property under discussion in low esteem. They have not had the property in question. They don't know what ...
— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White


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