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Bill Broker :: Bill broker () One who negotiates the discount of bills.

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

Discounter :: Discounter (n.) One who discounts; a discount broker.

Discount :: Discount (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..

Discount :: Discount (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..

Abatement :: Abatement (n.) The amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed.

Discount :: Discount (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..

Discountenance :: Discountenance (v. t.) To refuse to countenance, or give the support of one's approval to; to give one's influence against; to restrain by cold treatment; to discourage..

Fratricelli :: Fratricelli (n. pl.) A sect which seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining the duty of celibacy and poverty, and discountenancing oaths. Called also Fratricellians and Fraticelli..

Discountenance :: Discountenance (n.) Unfavorable aspect; unfriendly regard; cold treatment; disapprobation; whatever tends to check or discourage.

Percentage :: Percentage (n.) A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred..

Discountenance :: Discountenance (v. t.) To ruffle or discompose the countenance of; to put of countenance; to put to shame; to abash.

Chievance :: Chievance (n.) An unlawful bargain; traffic in which money is exported as discount.

Disfavor :: Disfavor (v. t.) To withhold or withdraw favor from; to regard with disesteem; to show disapprobation of; to discountenance.

Discourage :: Discourage (v. t.) To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts..

Discountenancer :: Discountenancer (n.) One who discountenances; one who disfavors.

Batta :: Batta (n.) Rate of exchange; also, the discount on uncurrent coins..

Agio :: Agio (n.) The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio.

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

Discounting :: Discounting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discoun.

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