discount

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An amount taken off the usual price of something.

   Students get a ten percent discount on all books.

2. 2
   verb

   To sell something at a lower price than usual.

   The shop discounted all its winter coats in January.

3. 3
   verb

   To treat something as unimportant or unlikely to be true.

   We shouldn't discount his opinion just because he is young.

Common collocations

• discount rate Noun + noun

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.

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