(v.) 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.
(v.) To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
(v.) To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
(v.) To leave out of account; to take no notice of.
(v. i.) To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
(v. t.) The rate of interest charged in discounting.
Example Sentences:
(1) The government’s increase in the discount offered to tenants has prompted a massive increase in purchases of local authority accommodation.
(2) A 20% discount will save the average first-time buyer £43,000 on a £218,000 home (the average cost paid by such buyers), which would leave a revenue shortfall of £8bn from income if current regulatory obligations had been retained on the 200,000 homes.
(3) • plans to consult on increasing discounts under right to buy.
(4) Tesco has revamped its budget range of value products with a new range of own-label “farm” brands as it steps up its fight against German discounters Aldi and Lidl.
(5) They cover popular claims involving discounts such as "was £3, now £2" or "half price", which must now only be offered for the same or less time than the product was initially sold at the higher price.
(6) • Plans to consult on increasing discounts under right to buy – the scheme which allows social housing tenants to buy their properties.
(7) A modified delayed-reinforcement scheduling procedure enabled a previous methodological criticism to be discounted.
(8) When I peruse a potential bargain I know I am influenced more by the extent of the reduction than whether the discounted item is something we really want.
(9) This difference was even more significant--16.4 and -0.5%--when usage of oral contraceptives and intrauterine devices was discounted.
(10) A major disruption in primary metabolism and hence secondary metabolism was discounted since eight primary metabolism enzymes showed no evidence of unusual changes in specific activity when normal and manganese-deficient cultures were compared.
(11) "Women with children are blamed for combining motherhood with paid work, and women with no children are sidelined and discounted because they are not mothers."
(12) Britain's Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) seems to have badly miscalculated in discounting the political necessity of immediately introducing legislation to ban surrogate parenthood arrangements.
(13) The new plug-in car grant, a plan first revealed by the Guardian last April , will offer car-buyers a maximum £5,000 discount on electric, plug-in hybrid and hydrogen vehicles from 1 January 2011.
(14) Comparison of these figures assumes the controversial point that preclinical cancer will always progress to invasive carcinoma if left untreated and takes no account of inflation and discounting.
(15) The discount retailer, which sells products ranging from biscuits to dog food and washing-up liquid, said total sales increased more than 12% to nearly £350m in the three months to the end of December.
(16) By discounting the relevance of child sexual trauma, psychiatric clinicians and theoreticians overlook not only the therapeutic needs of many survivors but the opportunity to reconceptualize the role of trauma in the etiology and treatment of conditions presumed to be incurable.
(17) Established methods of drug product management, such as formularies and MACs, were most commonly reported by HMOs; however, nearly half reported using new approaches, including contracts with manufacturers, incentives, such as discounts and rebates based on use, and exclusive or preferred status.
(18) In one clothes shop, with racks of discounted Calvin Klein and DKNY, the manager, Sav, explains what's happened: "In this crisis, the middle classes have been hollowed out."
(19) The average amount of life expectancy gained by immediate cholecystectomy compared with expectant management is 52 days, which is reduced to 23 days using 5% discounting.
(20) Tesco’s accounting scandal has led to concerns about the way the sector handles payments from suppliers for promoting products or hitting sales targets, and UK grocers are operating under fierce competition from discounters such as the German company Aldi which has reported a 65% rise in profits in the UK.
Rabate
Definition:
(v.) To recover to the fist, as a hawk.
Example Sentences:
(1) These destinations include places that have now been associated with the CIA's secret prison programme: Kabul, where the CIA ran the notorious "Salt Pit" prison; Bangkok, where Abu Zubaydah was first taken and used as a guinea pig for "enhanced interrogation techniques"; Rabat, where prisoners were kept incommunicado and tortured by Moroccan agents who passed information to the US and Britain; and Bucharest, one of the European secret jail sites.
(2) But after fears at the highest level this summer that slow progress could doom an agreement in Paris, a sense of relief, if not optimism, was tangible in Rabat.
(3) This paper gives the most important signs observed by CT scan imaging in 33 cases examined during 6 months in the Central Service of Radiology Avicenne CHU, Rabat.
(4) After he was caught Allen spent 20 months in Rabat jail before being extradited.
(5) Speaking from Rabat, the president of L'Association pour la Mémoire des Andalous strongly criticised Spain's double standard in offering to naturalise the descendants of Jews ousted from Spain but not Muslims.
(6) Our study is devoted to 12 cases of NPF collated in the ENT department of the Ibn Sina University Hospital in Rabat from 1983 to 1990.
(7) This time he was based at the Rabat Hilton where the tennis pro gave him a game every Sunday.
(8) Immunogenicity of the oral poliovirus vaccine prepared on Vero cells (Vero OPV) has been assessed in a two-stage study conducted in Rabat, Morocco.
(9) Over two consecutive years, weekly examinations for the presence of nematodes were conducted on 185 stomachs from donkeys originating mainly from the Rabat, Casablanca and Settat regions of Morocco.
(10) "We emphasize that Libyan citizens should be judged in Libya and Libya does not surrender its sons," Zeidan said at a press conference with his Moroccan counterpart Abdelilah Benkirane during a three-day visit to Rabat.
(11) Eighteen parasites were identified from 57 stray dogs from the urban and rural areas of Rabat.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Moroccan activists participate in a vigil in Rabat to pay tribute to the victims of the Orlando gay club shooting.
(13) But they could be adjusted in the future to meet the 2C target recommended by international scientists, the EU’s climate commissioner, Miguel Cañete, told a UN conference in Rabat, Morocco .
(14) We don’t need a treaty in Paris,” the Moroccan environment minister Hakima el Haite told a UN climate conference in Rabat last month.
(15) We can work with far more freedom than in Cairo or Algiers, for example, or even Rabat or Casablanca further west.
(16) They filmed it in Morocco, with Sale near Rabat standing in for Mogadishu.
(17) El País • Since 2004, dozens of American embassy cables from Madrid, Rabat and Paris show the Spanish Socialist government had been secretly supporting Morocco in talks to regain control of the Western Sahara.
(18) It was unexpected to receive all these contributions and it sends a very strong signal from Rabat that we can reach a global agreement in Paris.” Privately, EU officials admit that many national pledges have been conservative, reflecting caution about an untried INDC process.
(19) An enquiry was made to determine the prevalence of asthma in adolescents and was achieved using a questionnaire which was filled in by the pupils in secondary schools in Rabat.
(20) The centre of brucellic infection, which involves for the most part imported breeds, was found to be in the region of Casablanca (27%), Rabat, Salé, Fès and Meknes.