discount

See also: Discount

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Verb:
  • (in some senses) enPR: dĭskountʹ, IPA^(key): /dɪsˈkaʊnt/

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  • (in some senses) enPR: dĭsʹkount, IPA^(key): /ˈdɪskaʊnt/
• Noun and adjective:
  • enPR: dĭsʹkount, IPA^(key): /ˈdɪskaʊnt/

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• Rhymes: -aʊnt

Verb

discount (third-person singular simple present discounts, present participle discounting, simple past and past participle discounted)

2. To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like.

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

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

   the banks discount notes and bills of exchange

   • 1692, William Walsh, Letter on the present state of the Currency of Great Britain:

     Discount only unexceptionable paper.

6. To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
8. To leave out of account or regard as unimportant.

   They discounted his comments.

   They discounted his suggestion.

   They discounted his idea.

   • 1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:

     Of the three opinions, (I discount Brown's), under this head, one supposes that the law of Causality is a positive affirmation, and a primary fact of thought, incapable of all further analysis.

9. To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount
10. (psychology, transactional analysis) To believe, or act as though one believes, that one's own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.

Translations

to deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like

• Armenian: զեղչել (hy) (zeġčʿel)
• Bulgarian: отбивам (bg) (otbivam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 折扣 (zh) (zhékòu)

• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• German: nachlassen (de), Nachlass gewähren, einen Rabatt gewähren, abziehen (de)
• Hungarian: enged (hu), engedményt ad
• Japanese: 割り引く (waribiku)
• Khmer: បញ្ចុះតម្លៃ (bɑɑñcohtmlɨy)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: diskaun (ms)
• Maori: whakaheke utu
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: potrącać impf, potrącić (pl) pf
• Tagalog: deskuwento
• Thai: ลดราคา (lót-raa-kaa)
• Tibetan: གོང་བཅག (gong bcag)
• Ukrainian: зробити знижку (zrobyty znyžku)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Zazaki: cıra vısten

to lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest

• Zazaki: cêr arden

to take into consideration beforehand

• Catalan: descomptar (ca)
• German: einkalkulieren (de), einberechnen (de), mitberücksichtigen, mit in Betracht ziehen
• Hungarian: számít (hu)
• Zazaki: şık eşten

to leave out of account

• German: außer Acht lassen (de), unberücksichtigt lassen, abtun (de)
• Hungarian: figyelmen kívül hagy (hu)
• Ukrainian: зневажати (uk) (znevažaty)

to lend, or make a practice of lending, money

Noun

discount (plural discounts)

1. A reduction in price.

   This store offers discounts on all its wares. That store specializes in discount wares, too.

2. (finance) A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
3. The rate of interest charged in discounting.
4. (figurative) A lack or shortcoming.
   • 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:

     On our approaching the house where the Misses Spenlow lived, I was at such a discount in respect of my personal looks and presence of mind, that Traddles proposed a gentle stimulant in the form of a glass of ale.

5. (psychology, transactional analysis) 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.

Synonyms

• (reduction in price): rebate, reduction

Antonyms

• surcharge

Derived terms

• bank discount
• bond discount
• discountable
• discount card
• discount department store
• discount rate
• five-finger discount
• five finger discount
• industry discount
• quantity discount
• rediscount

 

Descendants

• German: Discount

Translations

reduction in price

• Albanian: zbritje (sq) f
• Arabic: خَصْم m (ḵaṣm), تَخْفِيض m (taḵfīḍ), حَسْم m (ḥasm)
• Armenian: զեղչ (hy) (zeġčʿ)
• Azerbaijani: endirim
• Bashkir: ташлама (taşlama)
• Belarusian: скі́дка f (skídka), зні́жка f (znížka)
• Bengali: ডিসকাউন্ট (bn) (ḍiśokaunṭo), বাটা (baṭa)
• Bulgarian: о́тбив (bg) m (ótbiv), отстъ́пка (bg) f (otstǎ́pka), шко́нто n (škónto)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: descompte (ca) m, rebaixa f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 折扣 (zit³ kau³)

  Mandarin: 折扣 (zh) (zhékòu)

• Czech: sleva (cs) f
• Danish: rabat (da)
• Dutch: korting (nl) c
• Elfdalian: rabatt m
• Esperanto: rabato (eo)
• Estonian: hinnasoodustus
• Faroese: avsláttur m
• Finnish: alennus (fi)
• French: rabais (fr) m, discompte (fr) m, promotion (fr) f
• Georgian: ფასდაკლება (pasdaḳleba)
• German: Rabatt (de) m, Preisnachlass (de) m, Nachlass (de) m, Ermäßigung (de) f
• Greek: έκπτωση (el) f (ékptosi)
• Greenlandic: akikillilerut
• Hebrew: הֲנָחָה (he) f (hanakhá)
• Hindi: छूट (hi) f (chūṭ), बट्टा (hi) m (baṭṭā)
• Hungarian: kedvezmény (hu), engedmény (hu), árengedmény (hu), árleszállítás (hu)
• Icelandic: afsláttur (is) m
• Indonesian: diskon (id), korting (id), rabat (id)
• Irish: lascaine (ga) f, lacáiste m
• Italian: sconto (it) m
• Japanese: 割引 (ja) (waribiki), 値引き (ja) (nebiki), 差し引く (ja) (sashihiku)
• Kazakh: шегерім (şegerım)
• Khmer: ការបញ្ចុះថ្លៃ (kaa bɑñcoh thlay)
• Korean: 할인 (ko) (harin)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: daxîn (ku), îskonto (ku)

• Kyrgyz: скидка (ky) (skidka), арзандатуу (ky) (arzandatuu)
• Lao: ສ່ວນລົດ (sūan lot), ການຫລຸດລາຄາ (kān lut lā khā)
• Latvian: atlaide f
• Lithuanian: nuolaida f
• Luxembourgish: Reduktioun, Rabatt m
• Macedonian: попуст m (popust)
• Malay: potongan harga, diskaun (ms)
• Maori: whakahekenga utu
• Marathi: सूट f (sūṭ)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хөнгөлөлт (mn) (xöngölölt)

  Mongolian: ᠬᠥᠩᠭᠡᠯᠡᠯᠲᠡ (köŋgelelte)

• Northern Sami: vuoládus
• Norwegian: avslag (no) n

  Bokmål: rabatt m, moderasjon m

  Nynorsk: rabatt m, moderasjon m

• Ottoman Turkish: اكرام (ikram)
• Pashto: تخفيف (ps) m (taxfíf)
• Persian: تخفیف (fa) (taxfif)
• Polish: opust m, zniżka (pl) f, rabat (pl) m, upust (pl) m, przecena f
• Portuguese: desconto (pt) m, abatimento (pt) m
• Romanian: reducere (ro) f, discount n, (now uncommon) rabat (ro) n
• Romansch: rabat m
• Russian: ски́дка (ru) f (skídka), диско́нт (ru) m (diskónt)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̀пуст m

  Roman: pòpust (sh) m

• Slovak: zľava f
• Slovene: popust m
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: zniženje, rabat

• Spanish: descuento (es) m, rebaja (es)
• Swahili: diskaunti (sw)
• Swedish: rabatt (sv) c, rea (sv) c
• Tagalog: awas, deskuwento, tawad
• Tajik: тахфиф (taxfif)
• Tatar: ташлама (tt) (taşlama)
• Thai: ส่วนลด (th) (sùuan-lót)
• Turkish: indirim (tr), iskonto (tr)
• Ukrainian: знижка f (znyžka)， акція (uk) f (akcija)
• Urdu: چھوٹ f (chūṭ)
• Uyghur: ئېتىبار (ëtibar)
• Uzbek: skidka, kamaytirish (uz)
• Vietnamese: bớt giá, sự bớt, sự giảm, sự trừ, sự hạ giá (vi)
• Welsh: disgownt
• Zazaki: ronayış, cêr ardış

deduction made for interest

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貼現／贴现 (zh) (tiēxiàn)

• Finnish: alennus (fi)
• German: Abgeld n, Disagio (de) n, Abschlag (de) m
• Greek: υφαίρεση (el) f (yfaíresi)
• Kazakh: дисконт (diskont)
• Polish: dyskonto (pl) n
• Zazaki: vıst cêr

rate of interest charged in discounting

• Finnish: diskonttokorko (fi)

Adjective

discount (not comparable)

1. (of a store) Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.

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

Translations

selling at reduced prices

• Finnish: halpa- (fi)

Further reading

• “discount”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “discount”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “discount”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• conduits, ductions, noctuids

French

Adjective

discount (invariable)

1. discount

Noun

discount m (plural discounts)

1. discount

Further reading

• “discount”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, a shortening of English discount store.

Noun

discount m (invariable)

1. discount store

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English discount.

Noun

discount n (plural discounturi)

1. discount

Declension

Declension of discount

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) discount	discountul	(niște) discounturi	discounturile
genitive/dative	(unui) discount	discountului	(unor) discounturi	discounturilor
vocative	discountule		discounturilor