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Discounted

Discount \Dis"count`\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Discounted; p. pr. & vb. n. Discounting.] [OF. desconter, descompter, to deduct, F. d['e]compter to discount; pref. des- (L. dis-) + conter, compter. See Count, v.]

  1. To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.

  2. To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.

    Discount only unexceptionable paper.
    --Walsh.

  3. To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).

  4. To leave out of account; to take no notice of. [R.]

    Of the three opinions (I discount Brown's).
    --Sir W. Hamilton.

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discounted

vb. (en-past of: discount)

Usage examples of "discounted".

Convincing the Gulf states to provide Jordan with large amounts of heavily discounted oil, and possibly a market for Jordanian goods, is not going to be easy.

A charming face, if one discounted the fright, intelligent despite the fear.

He refused to entertain her contention that they would have enough time to cut at least five, agreed but discounted the fact that this was the best blue lode she'd seen in decades.

But Torene discounted her own physical attractiveness whenever someone complimented her, and she played no favorites among the male riders who were constantly in her company.

He utterly discounted the fact that Moreta had not made any of the decisions or that she herself had only just recovered.

He discounted Merelan's suggestion that the girl would not be able to "read' the contralto line, much less manage the tempo changes or the cadenzas.

That Lord Holder had discounted Robinton's apprehensions, which worried him still more, since Ruatha not only bordered Nabol but was one of the most prosperous Holds, due to the fine runner-beasts it bred.

Piemur discounted that since Pergamol might very well sell the item here at the gather, since he could price it under the Harpercraft stall.

Some people discounted the many ways in which fire-lizards were useful.

This time, it was more basic and intensely personal than an abstract difference of opinion, and a pinpoint of guilt pricked Montague’s conscience: In the excitement of his discovery, he had discounted any possible moral dilemma.

Virtually every salvage expert in the world had discounted, even scoffed at, the possibility of raising the liner, even though there was no dearth of suggestions for achieving such an impossibility.

Lawrence had discounted Jackman’s orders and transmitted all the bad news: another strobe failure, the injury, and the jammed cargo net, leaving the admiral stunned.

Kurdish sources that have met with Syrian senior officials claim that Damascus would not object to any form of regime change as long as it is quick and the post-Saddam regime continues to sell Syria discounted oil.

Thus, in the case of Jordan, someone would to have to provide it with roughly $500 million in free and discounted oil, as well as make up for the loss of $900 million in trade, including $683 million worth of Jordanian exports to Iraq.

Even Sarha was getting stale, free fall didn’t provide an infinite variety of positions after all—and once you’d discounted the sex, there wasn’t much else between them.