discount

(noun, adjective, verb)

adjective

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.

noun

1. the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise

Similar word(s): deduction

Definition categories: act, decrease, diminution, reduction

2. interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan

Definition categories: possession

3. a refund of some fraction of the amount paid

Similar word(s): rebate

Definition categories: possession, refund

4. an amount or percentage deducted

Similar word(s): deduction

Definition categories: possession, adjustment, allowance

Sentences with discount as a noun:

- This store offers discounts on all its wares. That store specializes in discount wares, too.

verb

1. bar from attention or consideration

Similar word(s): dismiss, disregard, ignore

Definition categories: communication, reject

2. give a reduction in price on

- I never discount these books-they sell like hot cakes

Definition categories: possession

Sentences with discount as a verb:

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

- They discounted his comments.