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

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

  1. (transitive)
    1. To sell at a reduced price.
      Sales were slow even after the shop discounted the product.
    2. (rare) To 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.
    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.
      • 1692, William Walsh, Letter on the present state of the Currency of Great Britain:
        Discount only unexceptionable paper.
    5. To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
      The market has dropped, discounting changes in interest rates.
  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.

to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like

to lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest

to take into consideration beforehand

to lend, or make a practice of lending, money

discount (plural discounts)

  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. (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.

reduction in price

deduction made for interest

rate of interest charged in discounting

discount (not comparable)

  1. (of a store) Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.
    If you're looking for cheap clothes, there's a discount clothier around the corner.

Unadapted borrowing from English discount.

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

  1. discount
    Coordinate terms: billig, lavpris
  2. (figurative) low-quality, primitive, second-rate

discount (invariable)

  1. discount

discount m (plural discounts)

  1. discount

Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English discount store.

discount m (invariable)

  1. discount store

Unadapted borrowing from English discount.

discount n (plural discounturi)

  1. discount