discount

1. v. To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills. Source: opted

2. v. To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange. Source: opted

3. v. To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event). Source: opted

4. v. To leave out of account; to take no notice of. Source: opted

5. v. i. To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days. Source: opted

6. v. t. A counting off or deduction made from a gross sum on any account whatever; an allowance upon an account, debt, demand, price asked, and the like; something taken or deducted. Source: opted

7. v. t. A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money. Source: opted

8. v. t. The rate of interest charged in discounting. Source: opted

9. n. the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise Source: wordnet

10. n. interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan Source: wordnet

11. n. a refund of some fraction of the amount paid Source: wordnet

12. n. an amount or percentage deducted Source: wordnet

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