discount rate

English

Noun

discount rate (plural discount rates)

1. (finance) An interest rate that a central bank charges depository institutions that borrow reserves from it.
2. (finance) The interest rate used to discount future cashflows of a financial instrument; the annual interest rate used to decrease the amounts of future cashflows to yield their present value.

Synonyms

• (central bank interest rate): bank rate

Translations

central bank rate

• Armenian: վերաֆինանսավորման տոկոսադրույք (hy) (verafinansavorman tokosadruykʻ)
• Finnish: diskonttokorko (fi)
• Polish: oprocentowanie n
• Russian: ста́вка рефинанси́рования (ru) f (stávka refinansírovanija)
• Ukrainian: ставка рефінансування (stavka refinansuvannja)

interest rate used to discount future cashflow

• Finnish: diskonttokorko (fi)

See also

• policy rate, key interest rate
• net present value

Further reading

• “discount rate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• decrustation, decurtations