discount

Meanings

To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like.
To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest
To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
To leave out of account or regard as unimportant.
To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount
To believe, or act as though one believes, that one's own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.

A reduction in price.
A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
The rate of interest charged in discounting.
The act of one who believes, or act as though they believe, that their own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.

Alteration of French descompte, décompte, from Old French disconter, desconter, from Medieval Latin discomputō ("I deduct, discount"), from Latin dis- ("away") + computō.

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