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How to pronounce discount in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms deduction
Type of allowance, adjustment
Has types trade discount
Type Words
Synonyms bank discount, discount rate
Type of rate of interest, interest rate
Has types bank rate
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Synonyms rebate
Type of refund
Has types rent-rebate
Type Words
Synonyms brush aside, brush off, dismiss, disregard, ignore, push aside
Type of reject
Has types turn a blind eye, cold-shoulder, discredit, disoblige, flout, laugh away, laugh off, pass off, scoff, shrug off, slight
Type Words
Synonyms deduction, price reduction
Type of diminution, decrease, step-down, reduction
Type Words
Type of mark down
Has types allow, rebate
Derivation discounter


I never discount these books-they sell like hot cakes.

Examples of discount

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Usually the discount is 100 percent, allowing the paid app to be free for users.
From the techcrunch.com
When it comes to deals, the bigger the discount, the further people will travel.
From the techcrunch.com
Many closed-end funds trade at the biggest discount to net asset value in years.
From the forbes.com
Then there is discount hypermarket Big Bazaar and supermarket chain Food Bazaar.
From the businessweek.com
On Aug. 11 he took an $80 million stake in SpiceJet, an Indian discount airline.
From the businessweek.com
The final product may be sold at a discount, but it keeps the factories working.
From the sacbee.com
For the preppy in your family, Lacoste is running its best discount of the year.
From the time.com
It was admittedly a very direct middle finger of a joke, which I don't discount.
From the time.com
Most discount brokers will not cut this fee, although an increasing number will.
From the dailymail.co.uk
More examples
  • Dismiss: bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances"
  • The act of reducing the selling price of merchandise
  • Give a reduction in price on; "I never discount these books-they sell like hot cakes"
  • Discount rate: interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan
  • Rebate: a refund of some fraction of the amount paid
  • Deduction: an amount or percentage deducted
  • Discount was a punk rock band that formed in Vero Beach, Florida, in 1995 and disbanded in 2000. Before disbanding, the group's members relocated to Gainesville, Florida, where they performed their last show in August 2000. ...
  • (Discounts) Discounting is a financial mechanism in which a debtor obtains the right to delay payments to a creditor, for a defined period of time, in exchange for a charge or fee. ...
  • 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; To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, ...