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- Discount - 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.
- Discount - v. - To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
- Discount - v. - To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
- Discount - v. - To leave out of account; to take no notice of.
- Discount - v. i. - To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.
- Discount - 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.
- Discount - 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.
- Discount - v. t. - The rate of interest charged in discounting.
- Discountable - a. - Capable of being, or suitable to be, discounted; as, certain forms are necessary to render notes discountable at a bank.
- Discounted - imp. & p. p. - of Discount
- Discountenance - v. t. - To ruffle or discompose the countenance of; to put of countenance; to put to shame; to abash.
- Discountenance - v. t. - To refuse to countenance, or give the support of one's approval to; to give one's influence against; to restrain by cold treatment; to discourage.
- Discountenance - n. - Unfavorable aspect; unfriendly regard; cold treatment; disapprobation; whatever tends to check or discourage.
- Discountenanced - imp. & p. p. - of Discountenance
- Discountenancer - n. - One who discountenances; one who disfavors.
- Discountenancing - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Discountenance
- Discounter - n. - One who discounts; a discount broker.
- Discounting - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Discount
- Abatement - n. - The amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed.
- Agio - n. - The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio.
- Shave - v. t. - An exorbitant discount on a note.
- Discounter - n. - One who discounts; a discount broker.
- Bill broker - - One who negotiates the discount of bills.
- Batta - n. - Rate of exchange; also, the discount on uncurrent coins.
- Discount - v. i. - To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.
- Discount - 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.
- Discount - v. - To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
- Rebate - v. t. - To deduct from; to make a discount from, as interest due, or customs duties.