Dictionary Entry
discount
discount is a 8-letter English word with 14 senses as verb, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1verb
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.
- 2verb
To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
- 3verb
To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
- 4verb
To leave out of account; to take no notice of.
- 5intransitive verb
To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.
- 6transitive verb
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.
- 7transitive verb
A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
- 8transitive verb
The rate of interest charged in discounting.
- 9noun
the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise
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- 10noun
an amount or percentage deducted
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- 11noun
a refund of some fraction of the amount paid
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- 12noun
interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan
- 13verb
bar from attention or consideration
"She dismissed his advances"
- 14verb
give a reduction in price on
"I never discount these books-they sell like hot cakes"
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