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.”
Discount (verb)
To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest
“the banks discount notes and bills of exchange”
Discount (verb)
To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
Discount (verb)
To leave out of account or regard as unimportant.
“They discounted his comments.”
Discount (verb)
To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount
Discount (noun)
A reduction in price.
“This store offers discounts on all its wares. That store specializes in discount wares, too.”
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.
Discount (noun)
The rate of interest charged in discounting.
Discount (adjective)
Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.
“If you’re looking for cheap clothes, there’s a discount clothier around the corner.”
Rebate (noun)
A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement.
Rebate (noun)
The return of part of an amount already paid.
Rebate (noun)
The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.
Rebate (noun)
A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.
Rebate (noun)
A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
Rebate (noun)
An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
Rebate (noun)
A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.
Rebate (verb)
To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment
Rebate (verb)
To diminish or lessen something
Rebate (verb)
To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
Rebate (verb)
To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something
Rebate (verb)
To abate; to withdraw.