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discount | x |

As a noun discount

is discount (reduction in price).

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

discount

Verb

(en verb)
  • To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of.
  • 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.
  • * Walsh
  • Discount only unexceptionable paper.
  • To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
  • To leave out of account; to take no notice of.
  • * Sir William Hamilton
  • Of the three opinions, (I discount Brown's), under this head, one supposes that the law of Causality is a positive affirmation, and a primary fact of thought, incapable of all further analysis.
  • :They discounted his comments.
  • To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • Synonyms

    * (reduction in price) rebate, reduction

    Antonyms

    * surcharge

    Derived terms

    * quantity discount * rediscount * seasonal discount

    Descendants

    * German:

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of goods, available at reduced prices; discounted.
  • This store specializes in discount wares.
  • Of a store, specializing in goods at reduced prices.
  • If you're looking for cheap clothes, there's a discount clothier around the corner.

    Anagrams

    * English heteronyms ----

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
  • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.
  • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike
  • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----