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

1. verb. 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.
2. verb. To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
3. verb. To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
4. verb. To leave out of account; to take no notice of.
5. intransitive verb. To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.
6. transitive 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.
7. transitive 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.
8. transitive verb. The rate of interest charged in discounting.
9. noun. the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise

   Synonyms: deduction

10. noun. an amount or percentage deducted

    Synonyms: deduction

11. noun. a refund of some fraction of the amount paid

    Synonyms: rebate

12. noun. interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan
13. verb. bar from attention or consideration

    "She dismissed his advances"

    Synonyms: dismiss, disregard, ignore

14. verb. give a reduction in price on

    "I never discount these books-they sell like hot cakes"

Synonyms

deduction, rebate, dismiss, disregard, ignore

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in discount:

conduits, noctuids

Common word forms

discounts, discounted, discounter, discounting, discountable

Words from these letters

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