discount

discount
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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
v. t. rebate, allow, reduce; deduct, lessen, diminish; mark down, lower (the price); disregard, ignore; belittle. —n. allowance, qualification; markdown, rebate, refund, deduction; percentage. See decrease, cheapness, detraction, deduction, sale.Ant., mark up.
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(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. deduction, reduction, allowance, rebate, decrease, markdown, abatement, cut, concession, rollback, percentage, salvage, premium, diminution, subtraction, commission, exemption, modification, drawback, refund, tare, tare and tret, depreciation, cut rate, something off*, rake-off*, kickback*; see also interest 3 , reduction 1 .
Ant. increase*, markup, surcharge.
• at a discount,
Syn. discounted, cheap, depreciated, below list price; see reduced 2 .
v.
1. [To deduct]
Syn. reduce, mark down, lower, redeem, diminish, depreciate, make allowance for, allow, take off, charge off, strike off, rebate, abate, roll back, cut, cut prices, slash, slash prices, undersell, mark the tare of, rake off*, knock off*; see also decrease 2 .
Ant. raise*, mark up, advance.
2. [To disregard]
Syn. question, disbelieve, mistrust, discredit; see disregard , doubt 2 .
III
(Roget's Thesaurus II) I verb 1. To take away (a quantity) from another quantity: abate, deduct, rebate, subtract, take (off). Informal: knock off. See INCREASE. 2. To think, represent, or speak of as small or unimportant: belittle, decry, denigrate, deprecate, depreciate, derogate, detract, disparage, downgrade, minimize, run down, slight, talk down. Idiom: make light (or little) of. See ATTACK, SHOW. II noun An amount deducted: abatement, deduction, rebate, reduction. See INCREASE.

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