Word Meaning

Meaning of "discounts" and the crossword clue

- Deduction from the usual cost
- Reduce to a solution
- Reduction in price
- Rules out
- 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.
- To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
- To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
- To leave out of account; to take no notice of.
- To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.
- 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.
- 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.