discount

English Online Dictionary. What means discount‎? What does discount mean?

English

Etymology

Alteration of French descompte, décompte, from Old French disconter, desconter (“reckon off, account back, discount”), from Medieval Latin discomputō (“I deduct, discount”), from Latin dis- (“away”) + computō (“I reckon, count”). By surface analysis, dis- +‎ count.

Pronunciation

• Verb:
  • (disregard) enPR: dĭskountʹ, IPA^(key): /dɪˈskaʊnt/
  • (in other senses) enPR: dĭsʹkount, IPA^(key): /ˈdɪskaʊnt/

• Noun and adjective:
  • enPR: dĭsʹkount, IPA^(key): /ˈdɪskaʊnt/
• Rhymes: -aʊnt

Verb

discount (third-person singular simple present discounts, present participle discounting, simple past and past participle discounted)

1. (transitive)
   2. To sell at a reduced price.

   4. (rare) To deduct from an account, debt, charge, etc.

   6. To disregard an account or regard as unimportant.
   8. To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest.
   10. To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).

2. (psychology, transactional analysis) To believe, or act as though one believes, that one's own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.

Translations

Noun

discount (plural discounts)

1. A reduction in price.

2. (finance) 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.
4. (figurative) A lack or shortcoming.
5. (psychology, transactional analysis) The act of one who believes, or act as though they believe, that their own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.

Synonyms

• (reduction in price): rebate, reduction

Antonyms

• surcharge

Descendants

• → German: Discount

Translations

Adjective

discount (not comparable)

1. (of a store) Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.

Translations

Derived terms

Further reading

• “discount”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “discount”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “discount”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• conduits, ductions, noctuids

Danish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English discount.

Noun

discount c (singular definite discounten, not used in plural form)

1. discount

   Coordinate terms: billig, lavpris

2. (figurative) low-quality, primitive, second-rate

Declension

Derived terms

References

• “discount” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Adjective

discount (invariable)

1. discount

Noun

discount m (plural discounts)

1. discount

Further reading

• “discount”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English discount store.

Noun

discount m (invariable)

1. discount store

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English discount.

Noun

discount n (plural discounturi)

1. discount

Declension