DISCOUNT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does discount mean? 

• DISCOUNT (noun)
  The noun DISCOUNT has 4 senses:

1. the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise

2. interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan

3. a refund of some fraction of the amount paid

4. an amount or percentage deducted

  Familiarity information: DISCOUNT used as a noun is uncommon.

• DISCOUNT (verb)
  The verb DISCOUNT has 2 senses:

1. bar from attention or consideration

2. give a reduction in price on

  Familiarity information: DISCOUNT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISCOUNT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of reducing the selling price of merchandise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

deduction; discount; price reduction

Hypernyms ("discount" is a kind of...):

decrease; diminution; reduction; step-down (the act of decreasing or reducing something)

Derivation:

discount (give a reduction in price on)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

bank discount; discount; discount rate

Hypernyms ("discount" is a kind of...):

interest rate; rate of interest (the percentage of a sum of money charged for its use)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "discount"):

bank rate (the discount rate fixed by a central bank)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A refund of some fraction of the amount paid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

discount; rebate

Hypernyms ("discount" is a kind of...):

refund (money returned to a payer)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "discount"):

rent-rebate (a rebate on rent given by a local government authority)

Sense 4

Meaning:

An amount or percentage deducted

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

deduction; discount

Hypernyms ("discount" is a kind of...):

adjustment; allowance (an amount added or deducted on the basis of qualifying circumstances)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "discount"):

trade discount (a discount from the list price of a commodity allowed by a manufacturer or wholesaler to a merchant)

Derivation:

discount (give a reduction in price on)

• DISCOUNT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they discount ... he / she / it discounts
Past simple: discounted   
Past participle: discounted   
-ing form: discounting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bar from attention or consideration

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

brush aside; brush off; discount; dismiss; disregard; ignore; push aside

Context example:

She dismissed his advances

Hypernyms (to "discount" is one way to...):

reject (refuse to accept or acknowledge)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "discount"):

cold-shoulder; slight (pay no attention to, disrespect)

discredit (cause to be distrusted or disbelieved)

shrug off (minimize the importance of, brush aside)

pass off (disregard)

flout; scoff (treat with contemptuous disregard)

turn a blind eye (refuse to acknowledge)

laugh away; laugh off (deal with a problem by laughing or pretending to be amused by it)

disoblige (ignore someone's wishes)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Give a reduction in price on

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

I never discount these books-they sell like hot cakes

Hypernyms (to "discount" is one way to...):

mark down (reduce the price of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "discount"):

allow (grant as a discount or in exchange)

rebate (give a reduction in the price during a sale)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

discount (the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise)

discount (an amount or percentage deducted)

discounter (a sales outlet offering goods at a discounted price)

 Context examples 

Simulations used to describe the motion of molecules in solution, generally discounting the effects of inertia.

(Brownian Dynamics, NCI Thesaurus)

The more remote the future reward, the lower its perceived present value (the more it is discounted) and the less likely it is to be chosen.

(Delayed Reward Discounting, NCI Thesaurus)

The crew are his, body and soul. He could buy ’em at so much a gross with a cash discount, and he did it before ever they signed on.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He represented to the emperor the low condition of his treasury; that he was forced to take up money at a great discount; that exchequer bills would not circulate under nine per cent. below par; that I had cost his majesty above a million and a half of sprugs (their greatest gold coin, about the bigness of a spangle) and, upon the whole, that it would be advisable in the emperor to take the first fair occasion of dismissing me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

To discount that bill, said Mrs. Micawber, then my opinion is, that Mr. Micawber should go into the City, should take that bill into the Money Market, and should dispose of it for what he can get.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)