Discount
['dɪskaʊnt] or [dɪs'kaʊnt]
解釋/意思:
(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'.
編輯:洛娜--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
爱德温錄入
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Allowance, deduction, reduction, drawback, abatement, rebate.
布雷特整理
解釋/意思:
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.
埃罗尔校對
娱乐性解釋/意思:
Something often sold in place of goods.
阿诺德手打
例句/造句/用法:
- A merchant, without over-trading, may frequently have occasion for a sum of ready money, even when he has no bills to discount. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I bought wholesale and at a low price, and permitted the wives of the engineers and trainmen to have the benefit of the discount. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I simply said, If you call this camping out, all right--but it isn't the style I am used to; my little baggage that I brought along is at a discount. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He could buy 'em at so much a gross with a cash discount, and he did it before ever they signed on. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Watch-guards and toasting-forks were alike at a discount, and pencil-cases and sponges were a drug in the market. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The son was alive then, and the daughter was at a discount. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I have tried to get this statement off at par here, but with no success; so I have been obliged to negotiate it at fifty percent discount. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Such a vocational education inevitably discounts the scientific and historic human connections of the materials and processes dealt with. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- It was wonderful to hear him talk about millions, and agios, and discounts, and what Rothschild was doing, and Baring Brothers. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I got a letter to Mr. Stillman; and went over and told him I wanted to open an account and get some loans and discounts. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- This third bill was made payable to the order of C, who, as soon as it was accepted, discounted it in the same manner with some banker in London. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- There is much in the wording of this passage which is irrelevant to our point and which must be discounted to make it clear. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Oh, well--that's discounted, isn't it? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- With regard to the latter, it seems to have made scarce any distinction between real and circulating bills, but to have discounted all equally. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- This bank was more liberal than any other had ever been, both in granting cash-accounts, and in discounting bills of exchange. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- By its liberality in granting cash-accounts, and in discounting bills of exchange, it, no doubt, issued great quantities of its bank notes. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The discounting line is his line principally, and he's what you may call a dealer in bills. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
整理:怀亚特