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