verb🔗ShareTo deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like."Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills."businessfinanceeconomyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest"the banks discount notes and bills of exchange"businessfinanceeconomyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event)."Discounting the possibility of rain, we planned a picnic in the park. "attitudebusinesseventChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo leave out of account or regard as unimportant."They discounted his comments."attitudebusinesseconomyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount"The bank is discounting loans to small businesses, hoping to stimulate the local economy. "financebusinesseconomyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗Share(transactional analysis) To believe, or act as though one believes, that one's own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation."She kept discounting her coworker's concerns about the project deadline, insisting her own approach was faster even though it was clearly creating more problems. "mindattitudehumanphilosophyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
