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折扣,打折扣,贴现,不重视,低估

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Discount \Dis"count`\ (?; 277), v. i.
   To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the
   discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.

Discount \Dis"count`\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]compte. See {Discount},
   v. t.]
   1. A counting off or deduction made from a gross sum on any
      account whatever; an allowance upon an account, debt,
      demand, price asked, and the like; something taken or
      deducted.

   2. 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.

   {At a discount}, below par, or below the nominal value;
      hence, colloquially, out of favor; poorly esteemed;
      depreciated.

   {Bank discount}, a sum equal to the interest at a given rate
      on the principal (face) of a bill or note from the time of
      discounting until it become due.

   {Discount broker}, one who makes a business of discounting
      commercial paper; a bill broker.

   {Discount day}, a particular day of the week when a bank
      discounts bills.

   {True discount}, the interest which, added to a principal,
      will equal the face of a note when it becomes due. The
      principal yielding this interest is the present value of
      the note.

Discount \Dis"count`\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Discounted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discounting}.] [OF. desconter,
   descompter, to deduct, F. d['e]compter to discount; pref.
   des- (L. dis-) + conter, compter. See {Count}, v.]
   1. To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to
      make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount
      five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.

   2. To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance
      for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of
      exchange.

            Discount only unexceptionable paper.  --Walsh.

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

   4. To leave out of account; to take no notice of. [R.]

            Of the three opinions (I discount Brown's). --Sir W.
                                                  Hamilton.

资料来源 : WordNet®

discount
     n 1: the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise [syn: {price
          reduction}, {deduction}]
     2: interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan
        [syn: {discount rate}, {bank discount}]
     3: a refund of some fraction of the amount paid [syn: {rebate}]
     4: an amount or percentage deducted [syn: {deduction}]

discount
     v 1: bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his
          advances" [syn: {dismiss}, {disregard}, {brush aside}, {brush
          off}, {push aside}, {ignore}]
     2: give a reduction in price on; "I never discount these
        books-they sell like hot cakes"
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