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.

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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