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Discount (verb)
To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like.
“Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.”
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Discount (verb)
To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest
“the banks discount notes and bills of exchange”
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Discount (verb)
To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
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Discount (verb)
To leave out of account or regard as unimportant.
“They discounted his comments.”
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Discount (verb)
To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount
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Discount (noun)
A reduction in price.
“This store offers discounts on all its wares. That store specializes in discount wares, too.”
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Discount (noun)
A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
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Discount (noun)
The rate of interest charged in discounting.
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Discount (adjective)
Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.
“If you’re looking for cheap clothes, there’s a discount clothier around the corner.”
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Rebate (noun)
A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement.
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Rebate (noun)
The return of part of an amount already paid.
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Rebate (noun)
The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.
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Rebate (noun)
A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.
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Rebate (noun)
A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
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Rebate (noun)
An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
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Rebate (noun)
A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.
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Rebate (verb)
To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment
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Rebate (verb)
To diminish or lessen something
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Rebate (verb)
To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
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Rebate (verb)
To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something
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Rebate (verb)
To abate; to withdraw.