Definition of discount

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

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Bill Broker :: Bill broker () One who negotiates the discount of bills.
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.
Discounter :: Discounter (n.) One who discounts; a discount broker.
Discompt :: Discompt (v. t.) To discount. See Discount.
Shave :: Shave (v. t.) An exorbitant discount on a note.
Discount :: Discount (v. t.) The rate of interest charged in discounting.
Discount :: Discount (v.) To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange..
Rebate :: Rebate (v. t.) To deduct from; to make a discount from, as interest due, or customs duties..
Percentage :: Percentage (n.) A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred..
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..
Discounted :: Discounted (imp. & p. p.) of Discoun.
Discountenance :: Discountenance (n.) Unfavorable aspect; unfriendly regard; cold treatment; disapprobation; whatever tends to check or 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..
Discount :: Discount (v.) To leave out of account; to take no notice of.
Abatement :: Abatement (n.) The amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed.
Discounting :: Discounting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discoun.
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..
Discountenancing :: Discountenancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discountenanc.
Disfavor :: Disfavor (v. t.) To withhold or withdraw favor from; to regard with disesteem; to show disapprobation of; to discountenance.
Chievance :: Chievance (n.) An unlawful bargain; traffic in which money is exported as discount.
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