Interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan

Usage examples of discount.

Besides Serena, Alberta and Angela, there was only herself, and she automatically discounted herself.

First, he stopped at the Alco Discount and bought several sets of heavy bungees.

Guttmann is intelligent enough to have discounted two-thirds of these epic fables as the confections of French officers seeking an ethnic hero against the Anglophonic authorities.

Not that Arion had discounted it, but when a mate never materialized, he assumed Morven must have misinterpreted her vision.

Rubbermaid supplied all the big discount chains, but found its greatest retail ally in Wal-Mart, which quickly became its single biggest customer.

So Metchnikoff, after you discount his amazing illogic, his intolerance, his bullheadedness, really did discover a fact which may make life easier for suffering mankind.

So we rode to Knoxville with our comical cabdriver, acquired a rental car at the airport, and found ourselves, shortly after midday, heading north out of Knoxville through a half-remembered world of busy roads, dangling traffic signals, vast intersections, huge signs, and acre upon acre of shopping malls, gas stations, discount stores, muffler clinics, car lots, and all the rest.

Everything, whether critical or biographical, that De Quincey wrote on Coleridgian matters requires, with whatever discount, to be carefully studied.

The computerized machine displays each price, calculates discounts and sales taxes, and shows a total.

Bob the Torturnaut rode the white highway of the dying Ethyls all the way to the end of the line, the blinding light giving way to a sunny, flowery hillside from a painting you put over your discount warehouse couch.

He had told her that he had inherited the house in Groningen, and doctors, she knew, did get discount on things, but there were still the servants and the upkeep of the big house.

De Haus had discounted both of these theories, at least for the moment.

But more often they were three-way deals, cash at both ends and a trade in the middle: a consignment of Laotian teak marooned by bankruptcy in Singapore that they traded to the Poles for a warehouse of glass, which they sold on, strictly cash on delivery, to a discount warehouse in Chicago.

Naturally, these forecasts tended to reflect the response of the current market and current customers and tended to discount the possible response of other markets and customers.

Over the years, selection committees had come to discount a lack of athletic prowess if a candidate had excelled in some other nonacademic field.