Discount

v. t.	1.	To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills. [imp. & p. p. Discounted; p. pr. & vb. n. Discounting.]
	2.	To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange. Discount only unexceptionable paper. - Walsh.
	3.	To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
	4.	To leave out of account; to take no notice of. Of the three opinions (I discount Brown's). - Sir W. Hamilton.
v. i.	1.	To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.
n.	1.	A counting off or deduction made from a gross sum on any account whatever; an allowance upon an account, debt, demand, price asked, and the like; something taken or deducted.
	2.	A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
	3.	The rate of interest charged in discounting. At a discount below par, or below the nominal value; hence, colloquially, out of favor; poorly esteemed; depreciated. Bank discount a sum equal to the interest at a given rate on the principal (face) of a bill or note from the time of discounting until it become due. Discount broker one who makes a business of discounting commercial paper; a bill broker. Discount day a particular day of the week when a bank discounts bills. True discount the interest which, added to a principal, will equal the face of a note when it becomes due. The principal yielding this interest is the present value of the note.

Noun	1.	discount - the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise Synonyms: price reduction, deduction
	2.	discount - interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan Synonyms: bank discount, discount rate
	3.	discount - a refund of some fraction of the amount paid Synonyms: rebate
	4.	discount - an amount or percentage deducted Synonyms: deduction
Verb	1.	discount - bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances" Synonyms: brush aside, brush off, dismiss, disregard, ignore, push aside
	2.	discount - give a reduction in price on; "I never discount these books-they sell like hot cakes"

DISCOUNT, practice. A set off, or defalcation in an action. Vin. Ab. h.t. DISCOUNT, contracts. An allowance made upon prompt payment in the purchase of goods; it is also the interest allowed in advancing money upon bills of exchange, or other negotiable securities due at a future time And to discount, signifies the act of buying a bill of exchange, or promissory note for a less sum than that which upon its face, is payable.
     2. Among merchants, the term used when a bill of exchange is transferred, is, that the bill is sold, and not that it is discounted. See Poth. De l'Usure, n. 128 3 Pet. R. 40.

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