discount
/dɪˈskaʊnt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.35 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "Sales were slow even after the shop discounted the product."
- "Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills."
- "Owing to his reputation, they discounted his comments."
- "Of the three opinions, (I discount Brown's), under this head, one supposes that the law of Causality is a positive affirmation, and a primary fact of thought, incapable of all further analysis."
- "The banks discount notes and bills of exchange."
- "The company's directors were chagrined to learn that banks were suddenly refusing to discount its notes."
Etymology
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.
Origin
- Source language: French