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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Discount :: Discount (v. i.) To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days..
Percentage :: Percentage (n.) A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred..
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..
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..
Discountenancer :: Discountenancer (n.) One who discountenances; one who disfavors.
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..
Discounting :: Discounting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discoun.
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..
Chievance :: Chievance (n.) An unlawful bargain; traffic in which money is exported as discount.
Discountenance :: Discountenance (v. t.) To ruffle or discompose the countenance of; to put of countenance; to put to shame; to abash.
Discountenanced :: Discountenanced (imp. & p. p.) of Discountenanc.
Discountable :: Discountable (a.) Capable of being, or suitable to be, discounted; as, certain forms are necessary to render notes discountable at a bank..
Bill Broker :: Bill broker () One who negotiates the discount of bills.
Shave :: Shave (v. t.) An exorbitant discount on a note.
Rebate :: Rebate (v. t.) To deduct from; to make a discount from, as interest due, or customs duties..
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..
Discompt :: Discompt (v. t.) To discount. See Discount.
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. t.) The rate of interest charged in discounting.
Batta :: Batta (n.) Rate of exchange; also, the discount on uncurrent coins..
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