Discount

Definition: Discount

Discount

Noun

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.

Verb

1. Bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances".

2. Give a discount on.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "discount" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references)

19th Century Satire

Finance

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Discount

Decrement

Noun: decrement, discount, defect, loss, deduction; afterglow; eduction; waste.

Disapprobation

Disapproved, chid;Verb: in bad odor, blown upon, unapproved; unblest; at a discount, exploded; weighed in the balance and found wanting.

Discount

Verb: discount, bate; abate, rebate; reduce, price down, mark down take off, allow, give, make allowance; tax.

Noun: discount, abatement, concession, reduction, depreciation, allowance; qualification, set-off, drawback, poundage, agio, percentage; rebate, rebatement; backwardation, contango; salvage; tare and tret.

Coupon, discount coupon, cents-off coupon; store coupon, manufacturer's coupon; double coupon discount, triple coupon discount.

Adverb: at a discount, below par; at wholesale; have a friend in the business.

Disrepute

Adjective: disgraced; Verb: blown upon; "shorn of its beams ", shorn of one's glory; overcome, downtrodden; loaded with shame; Noun: in bad repute; Noun: out of repute, out of favor, out of fashion, out of countenance; at a discount; under a cloud, under an eclipse; unable to show one's face; in the shade, in the background; out at elbows, down at the elbows, down in the world.

Money

Verb: amount to, come to, mount up to; touch the pocket; draw, draw upon; indorse; (security); issue, utter; discount; back; demonetize, remonetize; fiscalize, monetize.

Interest, interest rate, discount rate.

Nonincrease, Decrease

Bate, abate, discount; depreciate; extenuate, lower, weaken, attenuate, fritter away; mitigate; (moderate); dwarf, throw into the shade; reduce; shorten; subtract. Adjective: unincreased; (see increase;); decreased; Verb: decreasing; Verb: on the wane; n.

Qualification

Condition, proviso, prerequisite, contingency, stipulation, provision, specification, sine qua non; catch, string, strings attached; exemption; exception, escape clause, salvo, saving clause; discount; restriction; fine print.

Crosswords: Discount

$2.99, plus by 10% employee discount, since I didn't bring you anything on our date last night (Sling Blade; writing credit: Charles Chaplin)

Ma, she'd get you a great discount. (Look Who's Talking; writing credit: Amy Heckerling)

For a paltry five dollars all I can offer you is a mask from the discount bin. You have your choice of Richard Nixon or Bart Simpson (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

When you get to hell, mention my name, and they'll give ya a discount. (Dead to Rights; writing credit: Flint Dille; Andre Emerson)

Try for discount. (I Love You to Death; writing credit: John Kostmayer)

You're now down with a discount (O.P.P.; performing artist: Naughty By Nature)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Discount Investment Corporation Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• National Discount Brokers Group, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Discount Brokerage Services in Canada: A Strategic Entry Report, 2000 (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Buying Retail Is Stupid!: Chicago: The Discount Guide to Buying Everyting at Up to 80% Off Retail (reference)

• Death at a Discount (reference)

• Five-Finger Discount (reference)

• How to buy government foreclosures : your complete guide to buying discount homes! (reference)

• Mr. Cheap's Atlanta: Bargains, Factory Outlets, Deep Discount Stores, Cheap Places to Stay, Cheap Eats, and Cheap, Fun Things to Do (Mr. Cheap'S) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Discount Store Distribution Analysis & Guide (reference)

• Insiders Guide To Discount Hotel Rates (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

Publishes a newsletter and sponsors a discount pharmacy program for members and a hotline. (references)

Using a 3 percent discount rate, this implies a net present value of approximately $800,000 for direct and ancillary costs associated with a CF birth. (references)

Business

Discount shopping malls, a rarity in the U.K., are especially attractive. (references)

Terminals Siemens s6 and Motorola 8700 are sold with a 50 per cent discount. (references)

As of October 2000, Costco Wholesale and Wal-Mart were the only U.S.-based discount stores in Korea. (references)

Economic History

Israel

Discount has assets of $28 billion. (references)

Chile

No discount general merchandisers operate in Chile. (references)

France

Hard Discount Stores trade principally on the basis of low price. (references)

Political Economy

DENMARK

The Danish discount rate as of October 5, 2001, stood at 3.75 percent. (references)

SWITZERLAND

Monetary policy is conducted through discount rate adjustments and open market operations. (references)

NIGERIA

Throughout most of 2000, Nigeria's lively parallel market placed about a five percent discount on the Nigerian Naira. (references)

Trade

Egypt

The CBE uses T-Bill auctions and discount rates in its monetary policy. (references)

Pakistan

Working capital finance may also be provided through discount of bills of exchange. (references)

Romania

The NBR's discount rate (the rate at which it lends to commercial banks) dropped to 35 percent. (references)

Travel

South Africa

All weekend calls are at discount (callmore) rates. (references)

Colombia

When making cash payments, it is sometimes possible to negotiate a discount at some stores. (references)

Korea

Finally, participants on official federal government programs (such as trade shows, "matchmakers" and other official trade missions) sponsored by the Commercial Service of the American Embassy or other entities of the U.S. government can often be accorded an Embassy discount rate at certain hotels. (references)

Worker Rights

Sao Tome and Principe

Workers often were forced to pay higher prices on the parallel market to obtain the goods theoretically provided at a discount as part of their compensation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "discount": at a discount ♦ bank discount ♦ bank of discount ♦ bill discount ♦ bulk discount ♦ cash discount ♦ coordinated discount fare ♦ discount a bill ♦ discount arbitrage ♦ discount bank ♦ discount basis rate ♦ discount bill ♦ Discount broker ♦ discount business ♦ discount card ♦ discount chain ♦ discount coupon ♦ Discount day ♦ discount factor ♦ discount house ♦ discount price ♦ discount rate ♦ discount smth. ♦ discount store ♦ discount ticket ♦ double coupon discount ♦ Federal discount rate ♦ give a cash discount ♦ give a discount ♦ IBM discount ♦ interest rate on a bank discount basis ♦ loan discount points ♦ loyalty discount ♦ make a discount ♦ make discount ♦ no claims discount ♦ official discount ♦ official discount rate ♦ original issue discount ♦ purchase discount ♦ quantity discount ♦ sales discount ♦ sell at a discount ♦ special discount price ♦ trade discount ♦ triple coupon discount ♦ True discount. Additional references.

Beginning with "discount": discount-retailing, discount-store, discount-trading.

Ending with "discount": bulk-discount, deep-discount, hard-discount, over-discount, pro-discount, re-discount, trade-in-discount.

Afrikaans

afslag (abatement, rebate), aftrek (absent onself, demand, depart, go away, leave, pick, pluck, rebate, retreat, sale, subtract, tear, tear off), afslaan (aberrate, rebate, reduce, reduce the price, reject, turn). (various references)

Albanian

zbritje (alighting, allowance, commutation, deduction, descent, disembarkation, down, falling, lowering, off reckoning, rebate, recoupment, reduction, subtraction), zbres interesin, zbres (alight, bring down, climb down, debus, deduct, descend, dip, dismount, dive, drop off, go down, knock off, let off, light, lower, reckon off, recoup, step down, subduct, subtract, take away), skontoj, shes me ulje, marr me rezervë, interes i mbajtur paraprakisht, i dal përpara (make advances to, meet halfway), bëj zbritje nga shuma, bëj paraprakisht. (various references)

Arabic 

‏حسم (clench, clinch, decide, decision, deduct, deduction, determination, determine, discounting, dispose, rebate, recoup, refund, settlement, sew up, shave), ‏حسب حساب, ‏خصم كمبيالة, ‏خصم إقتطاع (mark down), ‏خصم (adversary, antagonist, concurrent, deduct, enemy, foe, hostile, knock off, levy, litigant, opposite, rebate, recoup, subtract, subtraction, withhold), ‏إنتقص (deprecate, derogate, disparage, pick holes in), ‏أهمل (be negligent, default, desert, disregard, forsake, go by the board, lapse, lay aside, lay by, leave out, neglect, omit, overlook, pass, pass over smth., scorn, set apart, skive, slight, throwaway), ‏أسقط (bring down, dump, head off, kill, knock over, lay low, leave out, let down, let fall, lodge, mow, omit, overthrow, overturn, parachute, project, push down, push over, screw off, shed, toss), ‏شك (discredit, dispute, doubt, fall under suspicion, incertitude, inkling, misgiving, odor, odour, qualms, query, question, scepticism, scrupulosity, smell a rat, suspicion, unbelief, uncertainty, wonder), ‏دخل في حسابه. (various references)

Bulgarian 

сконто, рабат, оставям настрана (set aside, sink), отстъпка (allowance, concession, drawback, rebate, reduction), отбив (allowance, rebate), омаловажавам (belittle, decry, denigrate, disparage, enfeeble, extenuate, make little of, minify, minimize, palliate, play down, stultify, talk down, understate, whittle away), обезценявам (depreciate, devaluate, devalue), не вярвам на, намаление (abridgement, curtailment, cutback, decline, decrease, rebate, reduction, run down), правя отбив от, имам предвид (allude, bear in mind, consider, consult, envisage, intend, mean, refer, think of). (various references)

Catalan

descompte (abatement, rebate). (various references)

Chinese 

折扣 . (various references)

Czech

sleva (abatement, allowance, deduction, rebate, reduction), skonto, rabat (rebate), odpoèítat (count off, tell off), eskonovat. (various references)

Danish

discountforretning (discount center, discount house, discount shop, discount store), diskonteringsfaktor (discount factor, discount rate), diskonteringsinstitut (bill broker, discount house), diskonteringsrente (discount basis rate, discount rate, interest rate on a bank discount basis), diskonteringssats (discount basis rate, discount rate, interest rate on a bank discount basis), diskonto (discount rate, Federal discount rate), diskontobank (bill broker, discount house, discounting bank), discountbutik (discount center, discount house, discount shop, discount store), lille lavprisvarehus (discount center, discount house, discount shop, discount store), forskel på emissionskurs og pari på ikke-rentebærende værdipapirer (original issue discount), vekselmægler (bill broker, discount house), officiel diskonto (bank rate, discount rate, minimum lending rate, official discount rate, prime lending rate), points (loan discount points, points), rabat til kunder (allowances, discount granted, rebates), rabatteret overgangstarif (coordinated discount fare), reklamerabat (promotional discount), storkøb (discount center, discount house, discount shop, discount store), under pari (at a discount, below par), favørpræmie (loyalty discount). (various references)

Dutch

disconto (discount rate, Federal discount rate). (various references)

Esperanto

diskonto, rabato (abatement, rebate), rabati (rebate). (various references)

Farsi 

نزول (Descent, Fall), کاستن (Abate, Decline, Decrease, Detract, Drawoff, Lessen, Lighten, Pare, Rebate, Shorten, Soften, Subtract), تخفیف دادن (Abate, Alight, Assuage, Bate, Extenuate, Lower, Mitigate, Relieve), تخفیف (Rebate, Refraction, Relaxation, Remission, Slake), برات رانزول کردن . (various references)

Finnish

diskontto, diskontata, alennus (cut, degradation, reduction). (various references)

French

remise, rabais, réduction (diminution), escompter, escompte (discounting). (various references)

Frisian

ôfslaan (abase, abate, aberrate, decrease, lower, rebate, reduce the price, reject, turn). (various references)

German

Rabatt (abatement, rebate, reduction), nachlassen (abate, abatement, bequeath, decrease, deteriorate, die away, die down, dim, diminish, drop, ease, ease off, ease up, fade, fail, failure, fall, flag, go, intermit, knock off, lessen, letup, loosen, moderate, rebate, reduce, relax, relaxation, relent, remit, respite, sink, slack off, slacken, slacken off, softening, subside, tail off, take off, to abandon ship, to abate, to ease up, to intermit, to slacken, wane, waver, weaken, wear off), Abzug (copy, deduction, departure, hood, moving away, outlet, print, pull, subtraction, trigger, vent, withdrawal). (various references)

Greek 

έκπτωση (allowance, deduction, markdown, rebate, reduction). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תיחס בספק� ות, ל�'רע (subtract), ל� כות (deduct, subtract), �"� ח�", �"יסקו� ט, � כיון (deduction). (various references)

Hungarian

árengedmény (allowance, price cutting, price-slashing), leszámítolás (discounting). (various references)

Indonesian

diskon, potongan harga (abatement), korting. (various references)

Italian

sconto (rebate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

割り引き (rebate, reduction, tenths discounted). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ディスカウント , ねびき (price reduction, redeem, uproot), べ�"きょう (diligence, reduction, study), ぶびき, わりびき (rebate, reduction, tenths discounted), やすうり (bargain sale, selling cheaply). (various references)

Korean 

� 인 (Discounting). (various references)

Manx

jannoo beg jeh (belittle, condemn, debunk, depreciate, depreciation, disparage, disparagement, flout), dooraght (bonus, commission, fringe benefit, gratuity, tip), cur dooraght er, argid brishee. (various references)

Norwegian

trekke fra (deduct), rabatt (allowance). (various references)

Papiamen

rebaha (abatement, rebate). (various references)

Pig Latin

iscountday.(various references)

Portuguese

desconto (abatement, allowance, deduction, rebate, recoupment, set-off), descontar (cash, deduct, rebate, take away), abatimento (abatement, chill, damp, dejection, depression, despondency, doldrums, drawback, droop, enervation, heaviness, languor, mope, prostration, rebate, reduction, sag, settlement, weekness), abater (abased, abater, butcher, deject, depress, dishearten, down, fell, knock down, lay, lower, prostrate, rebate, reduce, retrench, shoot down, sink, slaughter, tumble down, unman, weaken). (various references)

Romanian

decontare, sconta, scont, reducere (abatement, abridgement, abridgment, compression, contraction, curtailment, cut, deflation, degression, derogation, dockage, drawback, drop, rebate, reduction, retrenchment, sinking), reduce (abate, abridge, ax, axe, bear down, bring, cancel out, contract, curtail, cut, decrease, derogate, detract, diminish, draw in, drop, extenuate, fine down, knock down, knock off, lessen, lower, make good, narrow down, pare down, prune, recover, reduce, retrench, slacken, stint, stop, unbend, weaken), rabat (allowance, rebate, reduction), nu avea încredere în (distrust, fight shy of smth., mistrust), nu ţine cont de (neglect, override). (various references)

Russian 

учет векселей, учитывать векселя, скидка (abatement, rebate), обесценивать (cheapen, debase, depreciate, depreciated, devaluate, devalue, disesteem), не принимать в расчет, процент скидки, делать скидку (abate, make abatement, reckon off), дисконтировать, дисконт. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

diskontovati, smanjiti cenu (mark down), popust (rebate, shrinkage), olakšica (benefit, break), cena ispod pariteta. (various references)

Spanish

descuento (abatement, cash discount, deduction, rebate), rebaja (abatement, abbreviation, allowance, deduction, rebate, reduction), reducción (abatement, abridgement, abridgment, contraction, curtailment, cutback, depletion, mark down, narrowing, rebate, reduction, retrenchment, setting, shortening), bajar (abase, abate, bow, bring down, climb down, come down, cut, decline, decrease, deign, demean, demote, depreciate, descend, detrain, dismount, download, drop, drop off, duck, ebb, fall, fall away, fall back, fall off, get down, get off, get out, go below, go belowdecks, go down, hand down, hang, hop off, let down, lift down, lower, pull down, put down, rebate, recede, reduce, ring down, sag, set out, sink, step down, stoop, subside, take down, trail, turn down, walk down, walk off, wind down). (various references)

Swedish

rabatt (allowance, bed, border, flowerbed, rebate). (various references)

Turkish

kısa kesme, kırmak (bear down, blight, breach, break, break down, bust, chill, chop, crack, cut, dampen, fracture, freeze, give offence, give offense, hurt, lacerate, offend, outrage, pique, put off, put smb.'s nose out of joint, quench, reduce, refract, Rive, ruffle smb.'s feelings, rupture, set up, shatter, skip, snap, snap off, split, stave in, sting, touch, vanquish), kırdırmak (negotiate, rediscount), iskonto (allowance, purchase discount, reduction), indirim yapmak (allow, give a discount, knock off, shade), indirim (abatement, allowance, allowance for cash, cut, deduction, degression, offtake, price cut, price cutting, purchase discount, rebate, reduction), hesaptan düşmek, hesaplamak (calculate, check out, cipher, compute, count up, figure out, foot, foot up, number, reckon, work out), azaltma (abatement, attenuation, ax, axe, curtailment, cutback, decrease, depletion, derogation, detraction, diminution, lessening, retrenchment, setdown), önemsememek (be oblivious to, close one's eyes to, coquet, disregard, have a low opinion of, ignore, make light of, make little of, make nothing of, not to care twopence for, pay no attention, piss on smth., play down, play it low down, set at naught, set at nought, slight, slur over, toy, treat smb. like dirt, trifle, trifle with), önceden düşünmek (envisage, premeditate). (various references)

Ukrainian

знижувати (abate, bring down, невимушенІсть [f], degrade, depress, lower, put down, reduce, send down, take from), знижка (abatement, allowance, deduction, rebate), псувати (alloy, bedevil, blemish, blight, blur, break, corrupt, cripple, debase, deface, deform, degrade, deprave, destroy, deteriorate, disfigure, do for, envenom, erode, flaw, make miserable, mess, mismanage, muddle, muff, perish, prejudice, punish, queer, spoil, vitiate, waste), дисконтувати, дисконт. (various references)

Vietnamese 

tiền trừ, sự giảm (drawback, drop, subduction, subsidence), sự bớt (retrenchment, subsidence), không được chuộng (unvalued), giảm giá. (various references)

Zulu

isephulelo (abatement, rebate), -ephulela (rebate). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "discount": discountable, discounted, discountenance, discountenanced, discountenances, discountenancing, discounter, discounters, discounting, discounts. (additional references)

Words ending with "discount": nondiscount, overdiscount, rediscount. (additional references)

Words containing "discount": overdiscounted, overdiscounting, overdiscounts, rediscountable, rediscounted, rediscounting, rediscounts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Discount" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dicunt, disbound, discon, Drincourt. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: conduits, noctuids.

-1 letter: conduit, inducts, noctuid, suction.

-2 letters: coitus, counts, cousin, cutins, dicots, donuts, induct, nudist, outsin, stound, studio, tocsin, tonics, tunics.

-3 letters: cions, coins, conus, count, cutin, cutis, dicot, dints, disco, doits, donut, ducts, duits, dunts, icons, ictus, incus, nidus, nodus, odist, ontic, scion, scout, scudi, scudo, snout, sodic, sonic, sound, stoic, suint, tondi, tonic.

+1 letter: custodian, discounts, eductions, inductors, seduction, suctioned.

+2 letters: abductions, adductions, custodians, deductions, discounted, discounter, educations, inductions, introduces, misconduct, miscounted, rediscount, reductions, seductions, subduction, undomestic.

+3 letters: adjunctions, coatimundis, conductions, constituted, counterbids, countryside, cuspidation, decussation, destruction, discontinue, discounters, discounting, disfunction, disjunction, dysfunction, inosculated, introducers, jocundities, misconducts, nondiscount, nucleotides, outdistance, outscolding, productions, rediscounts, subductions, tendencious, unsolicited.

+4 letters: acidulations, coeducations, conquistador, counterraids, countrysides, cuspidations, decussations, destructions, discontinued, discontinues, discountable, disfunctions, disjunctions, duplications, dysfunctions, educationese, educationist, elucidations, fecundations, jurisdiction, misconducted, misconstrued, miseducation, noncustodial, nucleotidase, outdistanced, outdistances, overdiscount, rediscounted, reductionism, reductionist, reeducations, reintroduces, transduction, unassociated, unsanctioned, woodcuttings.