# discount
## English
### Etymology

Alteration of French descompte, décompte, from Old French disconter, desconter (“reckon off, account back, discount”), from Medieval Latin discomputō (“I deduct, discount”), from Latin dis- (“away”) + computō (“I reckon, count”). By surface analysis, dis- +‎ count.

### Pronunciation

* Verb:
** (in some senses) enPR: dĭskountʹ, IPA: /dɪsˈkaʊnt/
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** (in some senses) enPR: dĭsʹkount, IPA: /ˈdɪskaʊnt/
* Noun and adjective:
** enPR: dĭsʹkount, IPA: /ˈdɪskaʊnt/
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* Rhymes: -aʊnt

### Verb

discount (third-person singular simple present discounts, present participle discounting, simple past and past participle discounted)
* (transitive)
** To sell at a reduced price.
    Sales were slow even after the shop discounted the product.
** (rare) To deduct from an account, debt, charge, etc.
    Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.
** To disregard an account or regard as unimportant.
    Owing to his reputation, they discounted his comments.
*** 1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC: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.
** To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest.
    The banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
*** 1692, William Walsh, Letter on the present state of the Currency of Great Britain:Discount only unexceptionable paper.
** To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
    The market has dropped, discounting changes in interest rates.
* (psychology, transactional analysis) To believe, or act as though one believes, that one's own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.

#### Translations
### Noun

discount (plural discounts)
* A reduction in price.
    This store offers discounts on all its wares. That store specializes in discount wares, too.
* (finance) A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
* The rate of interest charged in discounting.
* (figurative) A lack or shortcoming.
** 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:On our approaching the house where the Misses Spenlow lived, I was at such a discount in respect of my personal looks and presence of mind, that Traddles proposed a gentle stimulant in the form of a glass of ale.
* (psychology, transactional analysis) The act of one who believes, or act as though they believe, that their own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.

#### Synonyms

* (reduction in price): rebate, reduction

#### Antonyms

* surcharge

#### Descendants

* German: Discount

#### Translations
### Adjective

discount (not comparable)
* (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.

#### Translations
### Derived terms

* antidiscount
* at a discount
* bank discount
* bond discount
* discountability
* discountable
* discount card
* discount department store
* discounter
* discount rate
* five-finger discount
* five finger discount
* industry discount
* nondiscount
* overdiscount
* prediscount
* quantity discount
* rediscount
* time discount
* undiscountable

### Further reading

* “discount”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* “discount”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
* “discount”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* conduits, ductions, noctuids

## French
### Adjective

discount (invariable)
* discount

### Noun

discount m (plural discounts)
* discount

### Further reading

* “discount”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English discount store.

### Noun

discount m (invariable)
* discount store

## Romanian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English discount.

### Noun

discount n (plural discounturi)
* discount