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discount¹

B1 Topic:Money & Finance
US /ˈdɪskaʊnt/ UK /ˈdɪskaʊnt/

noun

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Forms discounteddiscountingdiscounts

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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.

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