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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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..
Discounter :: Discounter (n.) One who discounts; a discount broker.
Face :: Face (n.) The exact amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, or other mercantile paper, without any addition for interest or reduction for discount..
Disfavor :: Disfavor (v. t.) To withhold or withdraw favor from; to regard with disesteem; to show disapprobation of; to discountenance.
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..
Bill Broker :: Bill broker () One who negotiates the discount of bills.
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..
Discountenancing :: Discountenancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discountenanc.
Discountenance :: Discountenance (v. t.) To ruffle or discompose the countenance of; to put of countenance; to put to shame; to abash.
Discount :: Discount (v. i.) To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days..
Discountable :: Discountable (a.) Capable of being, or suitable to be, discounted; as, certain forms are necessary to render notes discountable at a bank..
Discount :: Discount (v. t.) The rate of interest charged in discounting.
Discount :: Discount (v.) To leave out of account; to take no notice of.
Batta :: Batta (n.) Rate of exchange; also, the discount on uncurrent coins..
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..
Discountenancer :: Discountenancer (n.) One who discountenances; one who disfavors.
Rebate :: Rebate (v. t.) To deduct from; to make a discount from, as interest due, or customs duties..
Discounted :: Discounted (imp. & p. p.) of Discoun.
Abatement :: Abatement (n.) The amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed.
Shave :: Shave (v. t.) An exorbitant discount on a note.
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