discount

1. 1.

   bar from attention or consideration

   “She dismissed his advances”

   Synonymsdismissdisregardbrush asidebrush offpush asideignore

   Broaderreject

   Narrowerslightdiscreditshrug offpass offscoffturn a blind eyelaugh offdisoblige
2. 2.

   give a reduction in price on

   “I never discount these books-they sell like hot cakes”

   Broadermark down

   Narrowerallowrebate

Other forms of discount

plural

discounts·

past tense

discounted·

present participle

discounting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about discount

What does discount mean?

discount means "the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in discount?

discount has 2 syllables: di-scount. The stress falls on "scount". In IPA it is /dɪˈskaʊnt/.

What is another word for discount?

Close synonyms include price reduction, deduction, discount rate, bank discount, rebate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is discount a common word?

discount is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with discount?

1 word rhymes with discount. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.