DISCOUNT

Discount

Discount was a punk rock band that formed in Vero Beach, Florida, in 1995 and disbanded in 2000. Before disbanding, the group's members relocated to Gainesville, Florida, where they performed their last show in August 2000. They released three full length albums, several EPs, and two b-side collections. Members have gone on to form The Dead Weather, The Kills, The Kitchen, Black Cougar Shock Unit, Unitas, the Routineers, The Draft, Laserhead, Stolen Parts, and Monikers.

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discount

Noun

  1. A reduction in price.
  1. A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
  2. The rate of interest charged in discounting.

Verb

  1. 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.
  2. To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
  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.
  5. To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.

Adjective

  1. Of goods, available at reduced prices; discounted.
    This store specializes in discount wares.
  2. 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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