sale
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sale, sal, from (etyl) . Related also to (l), (l).
Etymology 2
From (etyl) sale, from (etyl) .
Noun
(s)
An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.
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The sale of goods at reduced prices.
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The act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder.
Derived terms
* for sale
* on sale
* regular sales
* salesman
* sales pitch
Troponyms
* (selling of goods at reduced prices) cut-rate sale, sales event
* (act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder) auction, public sale
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discount
Verb
(en verb )
To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of.
- Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.
To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
* Walsh
- Discount only unexceptionable paper.
To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
To leave out of account; to take no notice of.
* Sir William Hamilton
- Of the three opinions, (I discount Brown’s), under this head, one supposes that the law of Causality is a positive affirmation, and a primary fact of thought, incapable of all further analysis.
:They discounted his comments.
To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.
Noun
(en noun )
A reduction in price.
A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
The rate of interest charged in discounting.
Synonyms
* (reduction in price) rebate, reduction
Derived terms
* quantity discount
* rediscount
* seasonal discount
Adjective
(–)
Of goods, available at reduced prices; discounted.
- This store specializes in discount wares.
Of a store, specializing in goods at reduced prices.
- If you’re looking for cheap clothes, there’s a discount clothier around the corner.
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