discount
verb/ˈdɪskaʊnt/
/ˈdɪskaʊnt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they discount | /dɪsˈkaʊnt/ /dɪsˈkaʊnt/ |
| he / she / it discounts | /dɪsˈkaʊnts/ /dɪsˈkaʊnts/ |
| past simple discounted | /dɪsˈkaʊntɪd/ /dɪsˈkaʊntɪd/ |
| past participle discounted | /dɪsˈkaʊntɪd/ /dɪsˈkaʊntɪd/ |
| -ing form discounting | /dɪsˈkaʊntɪŋ/ /dɪsˈkaʊntɪŋ/ |
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they discount | /ˈdɪskaʊnt/ /ˈdɪskaʊnt/ |
| he / she / it discounts | /ˈdɪskaʊnts/ /ˈdɪskaʊnts/ |
| past simple discounted | /ˈdɪskaʊntɪd/ /ˈdɪskaʊntɪd/ |
| past participle discounted | /ˈdɪskaʊntɪd/ /ˈdɪskaʊntɪd/ |
| -ing form discounting | /ˈdɪskaʊntɪŋ/ /ˈdɪskaʊntɪŋ/ |
- /ˈdɪskaʊnt//ˈdɪskaʊnt/[usually passive] to take an amount of money off the usual cost of something; to sell something at a discount synonym reduce
- be discounted by something Most of our stock has been discounted by up to 40 per cent.
- discounted rates/fares
- Students can get discounted tickets.
- Aer Lingus is offering heavily discounted prices on flights to the US this month.
- discount something The newspaper will discount its cover price this week.
More Like This Pronunciation changes by part of speechPronunciation changes by part of speechExtra ExamplesTopics Moneyb2, Shoppingb2- We're offering discounted prices throughout March.
- It's a mistake to heavily discount the price per item when bidding for a job.
- Some of last season's stock is still available at hugely discounted prices.
- The discounted fares can be up to 70 per cent less than the airlines' published prices.
- New regulations reduced the airlines' capacity to discount fares.
- The magazine's first issue was sold at the heavily discounted price of £3.00.
- You can find discounted flights on the internet.
- /dɪsˈkaʊnt//dɪsˈkaʊnt/(formal) to think or say that something is not important or not true synonym dismiss
- discount something We cannot discount the possibility of further strikes.
- discount something as something The news reports were being discounted as propaganda.
Extra Examples- Buckingham Palace discounted fears for the King's health.
- This theory has now been largely discounted.
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from obsolete French descompte (noun), descompter (verb), or (in commercial contexts) from Italian (di)scontare, both from medieval Latin discomputare, from Latin dis- (expressing reversal) + computare, from com- ‘together’ + putare ‘to settle (an account)’.
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