Discount

['dɪskaʊnt] or [dɪs'kaʊnt]

解释:

(noun.) the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise.

(verb.) give a reduction in price on; 'I never discount these books-they sell like hot cakes'.

编辑:洛娜--From WordNet

解释:

(v.) 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.

(v.) To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.

(v.) To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).

(v.) To leave out of account; to take no notice of.

(v. i.) To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.

(v. t.) The rate of interest charged in discounting.

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同义词及近义词：

n. Allowance, deduction, reduction, drawback, abatement, rebate.

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解释:

n. a sum taken from the reckoning: a sum returned to the payer of an account: a deduction made for interest in advancing money on a bill.—v.t. Discount′ to allow discount: to advance money on deducting discount: to put a reduced value on as in an extravagant statement or fabulous story.—v.i. to practise discounting.—adj. Discount′able.—ns. Dis′count-brok′er one who cashes notes or bills of exchange at a discount; Discount′er.—At a discount below par: not sought after: superfluous: depreciated in value.

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