Discount

Verb

 * 1) 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) To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
 * 3) To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
 * 4) To leave out of account; to take no notice of.
 * 5) To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.

Noun

 * 1) A reduction in price.
 * 2) A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
 * 3) The rate of interest charged in discounting.

Adjective

 * 1) Of goods, available at reduced prices; discounted.
 * This store specializes in discount wares.
 * 1) Of a store, specializing in goods at reduced prices.
 * If you're looking for cheap clothes, there's a discount clothier around the corner.

Synonyms for Discount

 * (reduction in price): rebate, reduction
 * allowance, deduction, loss, drawback, refund.

Antonyms for Discount
surcharge, increase, increment, premium, rise.

Derived terms

 * quantity discount
 * rediscount
 * seasonal discount

Thesaurus
abate, abatement, abjure, abuse, admit, admit exceptions, allow, allow for, allowance, bate, belittle, blink at, borrow, brush aside, brush off, charge off, chuck, chuck out, concede, consider, consider the circumstances, consider the source, contemn, contradict, cut, decline, deduct, deduction, deny, depreciate, derogate, despise, detract from, diminish, disapprove, discard, disclaim, discount notes, disdain, dismiss, disown, disparage, dispraise, disregard, draw back, except, exclude, fail, forget, forswear, gloss over, grant, ignore, kick back, knock off, lend, lessen, lift temporarily, lower, make allowance, make allowance for, mark down, minimize, omit, overlook, overpass, pass by, pass over, pass up, provide for, push aside, rebate, rebuff, recant, reduce, reduction, refund, refuse, refuse to consider, reject, relax, relax the condition, renounce, repel, repudiate, repulse, scout, set aside, shave, shove away, slight, spurn, subtract, subtraction, take, take a premium, take account of, take away, take into account, take into consideration, take off, take out, throw away, throw out, turn away, turn out, waive, write off

Pronunciation

 * Verb:
 * (in some senses) dĭskount', /dɪsˈkaʊnt/, /dIs"kaUnt/
 * (in some senses) dĭs'kount, /ˈdɪskaʊnt/, /"dIskaUnt/
 * Noun and adjective:
 * dĭs'kount, /ˈdɪskaʊnt/, /"dIskaUnt/