discount
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.