discountverb/dɪˈskaʊnt/

• 1

  To sell at a reduced price.

  • Sales were slow even after the shop discounted the product.
• 2

  rareTo deduct from an account, debt, charge, etc.

  • Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.
• 3

  To disregard or regard as unimportant.

  • Owing to his reputation, they discounted his comments.
  • Of the three opinions, (I discount Brown's), under this head, one supposes that the law of Causality is a positive affirmation, and a primary fact of thought, incapable of all further analysis.
• 4

  To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest.

  • The banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
  • The company's directors were chagrined to learn that banks were suddenly refusing to discount its notes.
• 5

  To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).

  • The market has dropped, discounting changes in interest rates.
• 6

  human-sciencespsychologysciencesTo believe, or act as though one believes, that one's own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.

discountnoun/ˈdɪskaʊnt/

• 1

  A reduction in price.

  • For the summer sale, there was 40% discount in all the stores at the mall.
  • This store offers discounts on all its wares. That store specializes in discount wares, too.
• 2

  businessfinanceA 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

  A lack or shortcoming.

  • On our approaching the house where the Misses Spenlow lived, I was at such a discount in respect of my personal looks and presence of mind, that Traddles proposed a gentle stimulant in the form of a glass of ale.
• 5

  human-sciencespsychologysciencesThe act of one who believes, or act as though they believe, that their own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.

discountadj/ˈdɪskaʊnt/

• 1

  Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.

  • If you're looking for cheap clothes, there's a discount clothier around the corner.