A Quick and Simple Dictionary

discount

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. Verb.  To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.
6. Noun.  A reduction in price.
7. Noun.  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. Noun.  The rate of interest charged in discounting.
9. Adjective.  Of goods, available at reduced prices; discounted.
10. Adjective.  Of a store, specializing in goods at reduced prices.