Word Finder - discount

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A reduction in price.

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This store offers discounts on all its wares. That store specializes in discount wares, too.

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A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.

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The rate of interest charged in discounting.

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(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.

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To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like.

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Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.

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To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest

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the banks discount notes and bills of exchange

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To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).

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To leave out of account or regard as unimportant.

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They discounted his comments.

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To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount

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(transactional analysis) To believe, or act as though one believes, that one's own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.

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(of a store) Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.

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If you're looking for cheap clothes, there's a discount clothier around the corner.

The rate of discount was 3% throughout the whole of the year.

Maybe he needed a veterinarian and figured he'd get a discount – or a freebee.

A large discount has therefore to be made from the agreements between Diatessaron and Syr.

But we may discount most such talk in these writers as bellettristic pedantry, copied as a rule from Philo of Alexandria, their literary model.

The chicanti is returned to the seller, who disposes of it at 20 to 30% discount to French and German merchants.

In order to discount the chances of failure, Bonaparte warned the three Directors that Augereau was a turbulent politician, not to be trusted overmuch.

The 20-piastre mejidie currency, in spite of the further enormous depreciation of silver since 1880, has scarcely varied in the Constantinople market, but has always remained at a discount of about 3% (between 108 and 109 piastres to the pound) under government rate; this is doubtless due to the fact that the demand and supply of the coins in that market are very evenly balanced.

Yarn is sold upon various terms, but a regular custom in the home trade is for the spinner to allow 4% discount, for payment in 14 days, of which 21 goes to the buyer, who is commonly a manufacturer, and 12 to the agent for sale and guaranteeing the account.

His grandfather was a respected tradesman in Worcester, and his father, who was born in that town in 1797, came up to London in 1820, and entered the office of a firm of discount brokers, in which he afterwards assumed a partnership. As a child the poet was delicate but studious.

In 1871, one of the most eventful years of his life, be began Fors Clavigera, a small serial addressed to the working men of England, and published only by Mr George Allen, engraver, at Keston, in Kent, at 7d., and afterwards at 10d., but without discount, and not through the trade.

But it is the biggest, best store ever, where you can buy anything from anywhere, based on reviews by other buyers, at a discount, and have it gift wrapped, engraved, altered, drop-shipped, and probably delivered by tomorrow.

It was his first home-cooked meal in memory, if you could discount the occasional donated casseroles from Fred O'Connor's lady friends.

By politic management Trajan was able to represent the diminution as a sort of discount for immediate payment, while the civilians had to wait a considerable time before their full due was handed to them.

It was the opinion of Petrarch that, had Urban remained in Rome, he would have been entitled to rank with the most distinguished men of his era; and, if we discount this single act of weakness, he must be classed as one of the noblest and best of popes.

Text-books on arithmetic usually contain explanations of the chief commercial transactions in which arithmetical calculations arise; it will be sufficient in the present article to deal with interest and discount, and to give some notes on percentages and rates in the £.

Discount may be allowed twice in succession off quoted prices; in such cases the second discount is off the reduced price, and therefore it is not correct to add the two rates of discount together.

The nation, restive under his now broken yoke, received with a joyous anticipation, which the future was to discount, the royal infant whom they called Louis the Well-beloved, and whose funeral sixty years later was to be greeted with the same proofs of disillusionment.

Perhaps you should wait until it turns up for a couple of quid in a discount bookstore.

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The Treasury should considering reducing the discount used in the public sector comparator from six to five per cent.

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Indeed, just one in ten (11 %) only buy nightwear in the sales or at discount.

There is a discount for single occupancy of a double room or twin room of 35% off the normal rate for 2 people.

This promotional offer is not available with any other discount.

The problems surrounding the determination of a fair discount rate are considered in preceding paragraphs in this paper.

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