(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.
Save
Definition:
(n.) The herb sage, or salvia.
(a.) To make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from injury, destruction, or evil of any kind; to rescue from impending danger; as, to save a house from the flames.
(a.) Specifically, to deliver from sin and its penalty; to rescue from a state of condemnation and spiritual death, and bring into a state of spiritual life.
(a.) To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve.
(a.) To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to prevent from doing something; to spare.
(a.) To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; to obviate the necessity of; to prevent; to spare.
(a.) To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of.
(v. i.) To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical.
(a.) Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving.
(conj.) Except; unless.
Example Sentences:
(1) Former Regional director for Latin American Caribbean and Middle East, Save the Children.
(2) There is precedent in Islamic law for saving the life of the mother where there is a clear choice of allowing either the fetus or the mother to survive.
(3) There was a 35% decrease in the number of patients seeking emergency treatment and one study put the savings in economic and social costs at just under £7m a year .
(4) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
(5) As calls grew to establish why nobody stepped in to save Daniel, it was also revealed that the boy's headteacher – who saw him scavenging for scraps – has not been disciplined and has been put in charge of a bigger school.
(6) It’s not to punish the public, it’s to save the NHS and its people.” Another commenter added: “Of course they should strike.
(7) The Italian coastguard ship Bruno Gregoracci docked in Malta at about 8am and dropped off two dozen bodies recovered from this weekend’s wreck, including children, according to Save the Children.
(8) Leaders of Tory local government are preparing radical proposals for minimum 10% cuts in public spending in the search for savings.
(9) Johnson said the move would save businesses £350m from not having to meet the more exacting standards, which will now only have to be met by buses.
(10) We believe our proposal will save taxpayers about £4m and reduce by about 11,000 the number of legally aided cases brought by prisoners each year.
(11) Thus, it is obvious that new measures will have to be taken if lives are to be saved in future events of this nature.
(12) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(13) Considerations on costs and benefits demonstrate that the treatment of severely injured patients, who otherwise would die, results in a considerable social and economic saving (approximately 90 million Swiss francs for the 316 trauma patients analyzed).
(14) As part of the shake-up, the rule that says only half can be saved in cash is being abolished.
(15) Patients treated with ciprofloxacin may need added coverage for anaerobes, but the drug's excellent activity against nosocomial pathogens and its availability in oral form allow for an early change to oral therapy without compromising effectiveness coupled with added savings and convenience.
(16) Given the financial crisis this government inherited, we had no choice but to make significant savings.
(17) To comply with these rules, interest is not paid on Islamic savings or current accounts, or charged on Islamic mortgages.
(18) Essaid Belkalem is live to the danger and saves his side's bacon.
(19) In the lowest prevalence scenario (0.02 initial prevalence), initiation of the program resulted in a projected savings of 2.3 life years per HIV-negative drug user, compared with 1.7 and 1.3 years under medium (0.25) and high (0.60) prevalence, respectively.
(20) He denied that the probation service budget, which has been protected so far from 23% cuts, would be a particular target, but said it was not yet making the same level of savings as was being required of the police.