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discount

adj · noun · verb · 18 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • dĭsʹkount
  • /ˈdɪskaʊnt/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -aʊnt
  • dĭskountʹ disregard
  • /dɪˈskaʊnt/ disregard
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • dĭsʹkount in other senses
  • /ˈdɪskaʊnt/ in other senses
  • CMU ARPABET: D IH0 S K AW1 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: D IH1 S K AW0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • If you're looking for cheap clothes, there's a discount clothier around the corner.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A reduction in price.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • For the summer sale, there was 40% discount in all the stores at the mall.
  • This store offers discounts on all its wares. That store specializes in discount wares, too.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: business, finance

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

The rate of interest charged in discounting.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A lack or shortcoming.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: figuratively

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

The act of one who believes, or act as though they believe, that their own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Qualifier: transactional analysis

Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

verb

Meaning 7

To sell at a reduced price.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • Sales were slow even after the shop discounted the product.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

verb

Meaning 8

To deduct from an account, debt, charge, etc.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: rare, transitive

Examples

  • Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

verb

Meaning 9

To disregard or regard as unimportant.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • Owing to his reputation, they discounted his comments.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

verb

Meaning 10

To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • The banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
  • The company's directors were chagrined to learn that banks were suddenly refusing to discount its notes.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

verb

Meaning 11

To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • The market has dropped, discounting changes in interest rates.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

verb

Meaning 12

To believe, or act as though one believes, that one's own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Qualifier: transactional analysis

Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

noun

Meaning 13

the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: price reduction, deduction

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: decrease, diminution, reduction, step-down

14

noun

Meaning 14

an amount or percentage deducted

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: deduction

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: allowance, adjustment

Narrower terms: trade discount

15

noun

Meaning 15

a refund of some fraction of the amount paid

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: rebate

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: refund

Narrower terms: rent-rebate

16

noun

Meaning 16

interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: discount rate, bank discount

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: interest rate, rate of interest

Narrower terms: bank rate

17

verb

Meaning 17

bar from attention or consideration

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • She dismissed his advances

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: dismiss, disregard, brush aside, brush off, push aside, ignore

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: reject

Narrower terms: slight, cold-shoulder, discredit, shrug off, pass off, scoff, flout, turn a blind eye, laugh off, laugh away, disoblige

18

verb

Meaning 18

give a reduction in price on

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • I never discount these books-they sell like hot cakes

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: mark down

Narrower terms: allow, rebate

History

Etymology

Alteration of French descompte, décompte, from Old French disconter, desconter (“reckon off, account back, discount”), from Medieval Latin discomputō (“to deduct, discount”), from Latin dis- (“away”) + computō (“to reckon, count”). By surface analysis, dis- + count.

Across languages

Translations

194 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Finnish: halpa- — selling at reduced prices
  • Albanian: zbritje — reduction in price
  • Arabic: خَصْم (ḵaṣm) — reduction in price
  • Arabic: تَخْفِيض (taḵfīḍ) — reduction in price
  • Arabic: حَسْم (ḥasm) — reduction in price
  • Armenian: զեղչ (zeġčʻ) — reduction in price
  • Azerbaijani: endirim — reduction in price
  • Bashkir: ташлама (taşlama) — reduction in price
  • Belarusian: скі́дка (skídka) — reduction in price
  • Belarusian: зні́жка (znížka) — reduction in price
  • Bengali: ডিসকাউন্ট (ḍiśokaunṭo) — reduction in price
  • Bengali: বাটা (baṭa) — reduction in price
  • Bulgarian: о́тбив (ótbiv) — reduction in price
  • Bulgarian: отстъ́пка (otstǎ́pka) — reduction in price
  • Bulgarian: шко́нто (škónto) — reduction in price
  • Catalan: descompte — reduction in price
  • Catalan: rebaixa — reduction in price
  • Chinese Cantonese: 折扣 (zit3 kau3) — reduction in price
  • Chinese Mandarin: 折扣 (zhékòu) — reduction in price
  • Czech: sleva — reduction in price
  • Danish: rabat — reduction in price
  • Dutch: korting — reduction in price
  • Elfdalian: rabatt — reduction in price
  • Esperanto: rabato — reduction in price
  • Estonian: hinnasoodustus — reduction in price
  • Faroese: avsláttur — reduction in price
  • Finnish: alennus — reduction in price
  • French: rabais — reduction in price
  • French: discompte — reduction in price
  • French: promotion — reduction in price
  • Georgian: ფასდაკლება (pasdaḳleba) — reduction in price
  • German: Rabatt — reduction in price
  • German: Preisnachlass — reduction in price
  • German: Nachlass — reduction in price
  • German: Ermäßigung — reduction in price
  • Greek: έκπτωση (ékptosi) — reduction in price
  • Greenlandic: akikillilerut — reduction in price
  • Hebrew: הֲנָחָה (hanakhá) — reduction in price
  • Hindi: छूट (chūṭ) — reduction in price
  • Hindi: बट्टा (baṭṭā) — reduction in price
  • Hungarian: kedvezmény — reduction in price
  • Hungarian: engedmény — reduction in price
  • Hungarian: árengedmény — reduction in price
  • Hungarian: árleszállítás — reduction in price
  • Icelandic: afsláttur — reduction in price
  • Indonesian: diskon — reduction in price
  • Indonesian: korting — reduction in price
  • Indonesian: rabat — reduction in price
  • Irish: lascaine — reduction in price
  • Irish: lacáiste — reduction in price
  • Italian: sconto — reduction in price
  • Japanese: 割引 (waribiki) — reduction in price
  • Japanese: 値引き (nebiki) — reduction in price
  • Japanese: 差し引く (sashihiku) — reduction in price
  • Kazakh: шегерім (şegerım) — reduction in price
  • Khmer: ការបញ្ចុះថ្លៃ (kaa bɑɑbɑñcoh thlay) — reduction in price
  • Korean: 할인 (harin) — reduction in price
  • Northern Kurdish: daxîn — reduction in price
  • Northern Kurdish: îskonto — reduction in price
  • Kyrgyz: скидка (skidka) — reduction in price
  • Kyrgyz: арзандатуу (arzandatuu) — reduction in price
  • Lao: ສ່ວນລົດ (sūan lot) — reduction in price
  • Lao: ການຫລຸດລາຄາ (kān lut lā khā) — reduction in price
  • Latvian: atlaide — reduction in price
  • Lithuanian: nuolaida — reduction in price
  • Luxembourgish: Reduktioun — reduction in price
  • Luxembourgish: Rabatt — reduction in price
  • Macedonian: попуст (popust) — reduction in price
  • Malay: potongan harga — reduction in price
  • Malay: diskaun — reduction in price
  • Māori: whakahekenga utu — reduction in price
  • Marathi: सूट (sūṭ) — reduction in price
  • Mongolian: хөнгөлөлт (xöngölölt) — reduction in price
  • Mongolian: ᠬᠥᠩᠭᠡᠯᠡᠯᠲᠡ (könggelelte) — reduction in price
  • Norwegian Bokmål: rabatt — reduction in price
  • Norwegian Bokmål: moderasjon — reduction in price
  • Norwegian Bokmål: avslag — reduction in price
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: rabatt — reduction in price
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: moderasjon — reduction in price
  • Pashto: تخفيف (taxfíf) — reduction in price
  • Iranian Persian: تَخْفیف (taxfif) — reduction in price
  • Iranian Persian: حَراج (harâj) — reduction in price
  • Polish: opust — reduction in price
  • Polish: zniżka — reduction in price
  • Polish: rabat — reduction in price
  • Polish: upust — reduction in price
  • Polish: przecena — reduction in price
  • Portuguese: desconto — reduction in price
  • Portuguese: abatimento — reduction in price
  • Romanian: reducere — reduction in price
  • Romanian: discount — reduction in price
  • Romanian: rabat — reduction in price
  • Romansh: rabat — reduction in price
  • Russian: ски́дка (skídka) — reduction in price
  • Russian: диско́нт (diskónt) — reduction in price
  • Northern Sami: vuoládus — reduction in price
  • Serbo-Croatian: по̀пуст — reduction in price
  • Serbo-Croatian: pòpust — reduction in price
  • Slovak: zľava — reduction in price
  • Slovene: popust — reduction in price
  • Upper Sorbian: zniženje — reduction in price
  • Upper Sorbian: rabat — reduction in price
  • Spanish: descuento — reduction in price
  • Spanish: rebaja — reduction in price
  • Swahili: diskaunti — reduction in price
  • Swedish: rabatt — reduction in price
  • Swedish: rea — reduction in price
  • Tagalog: awas — reduction in price
  • Tagalog: deskuwento — reduction in price
  • Tagalog: tawad — reduction in price
  • Tajik: тахфиф (taxfif) — reduction in price
  • Tatar: ташлама (taşlama) — reduction in price
  • Thai: ส่วนลด (sùuan-lót) — reduction in price
  • Turkish: indirim — reduction in price
  • Turkish: iskonto — reduction in price
  • Ottoman Turkish: اكرام (ikram) — reduction in price
  • Ukrainian: зни́жка (znýžka) — reduction in price
  • Urdu: چُھوٹ (chūṭ) — reduction in price
  • Uyghur: ئېتىبار (ëtibar) — reduction in price
  • Uzbek: skidka — reduction in price
  • Uzbek: kamaytirish — reduction in price
  • Vietnamese: bớt giá — reduction in price
  • Vietnamese: sự bớt — reduction in price
  • Vietnamese: sự giảm — reduction in price
  • Vietnamese: sự trừ — reduction in price
  • Vietnamese: sự hạ giá — reduction in price
  • Welsh: disgownt — reduction in price
  • Zazaki: ronayış — reduction in price
  • Zazaki: cêr ardış — reduction in price
  • Belarusian: дыско́нт (dyskónt) — deduction made for interest
  • Chinese Cantonese: 貼現 /贴现 (tip3 jin6) — deduction made for interest
  • Chinese Mandarin: 貼現 /贴现 (tiēxiàn) — deduction made for interest
  • Finnish: alennus — deduction made for interest
  • German: Abgeld — deduction made for interest
  • German: Disagio — deduction made for interest
  • German: Abschlag — deduction made for interest
  • Greek: υφαίρεση (yfaíresi) — deduction made for interest
  • Kazakh: дисконт (diskont) — deduction made for interest
  • Polish: dyskonto — deduction made for interest
  • Russian: диско́нт (diskónt) — deduction made for interest
  • Ukrainian: диско́нт (dyskónt) — deduction made for interest
  • Zazaki: vıst cêr — deduction made for interest
  • Esperanto: diskonto — rate of interest charged in discounting
  • Finnish: diskonttokorko — rate of interest charged in discounting
  • Armenian: զեղչել (zeġčʻel) — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • Bulgarian: отбивам (otbivam) — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • Catalan: descomptar — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • Chinese Mandarin: 折扣 (zhékòu) — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • Esperanto: diskonti — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • French: décompter — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • Georgian: ფასს უკლებს (pass uḳlebs) — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • Georgian: ფასს დაუკლებს (pass dauḳlebs) — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • Georgian: ფასდაკლებას მისცემს (pasdaḳlebas miscems) — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • Georgian: ფასდაკლებას შესთავაზებს (pasdaḳlebas šestavazebs) — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • Georgian: შეღავათს აძლევს (šeɣavats aʒlevs) — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • German: nachlassen — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • German: Nachlass gewähren — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • German: einen Rabatt gewähren — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • German: abziehen — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • Hungarian: enged — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • Hungarian: engedményt ad — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • Italian: scontare — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • Italian: detrarre — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • Japanese: 割り引く (waribiku) — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • Khmer: បញ្ចុះតម្លៃ (bɑɑbɑñcoh tɑmlay) — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • Malay: beri diskaun — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • Malay: potong — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • Māori: whakaheke — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • Polish: potrącać — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • Polish: potrącić — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • Portuguese: descontar — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • Spanish: descontar — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • Tagalog: deskuwento — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • Thai: ลดราคา (lót-raa-kaa) — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • Tibetan: གོང་བཅག (gong bcag) — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • Ottoman Turkish: قیرمق (kırmak) — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • Ukrainian: зробити знижку (zrobyty znyžku) — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • Vietnamese: giảm giá — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • Vietnamese: chiết khấu — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • Zazaki: cıra vısten — to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like
  • Catalan: descomptar — to lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest
  • Zazaki: cêr arden — to lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest
  • Catalan: descomptar — to take into consideration beforehand
  • German: einkalkulieren — to take into consideration beforehand
  • German: einberechnen — to take into consideration beforehand
  • German: mitberücksichtigen — to take into consideration beforehand
  • German: mit in Betracht ziehen — to take into consideration beforehand
  • Hungarian: számít — to take into consideration beforehand
  • Zazaki: şık eşten — to take into consideration beforehand
  • German: außer Acht lassen — to leave out of account
  • German: unberücksichtigt lassen — to leave out of account
  • German: abtun — to leave out of account
  • Hungarian: figyelmen kívül hagy — to leave out of account
  • Ukrainian: зневажати (znevažaty) — to leave out of account
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