Synonyms of the word

discount

• v. To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like.
• v. To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest.
• v. To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
• v. To leave out of account; to take no notice of.
• v. To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount.
• n. A reduction in price.
• n. A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment…
• n. The rate of interest charged in discounting.
• adj. (of a store) Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.

adjustment

• n. The action of adjusting something.
• n. The result of adjusting something; a small change; a minor correction; a modification or alteration.
• n. The settling or balancing of a financial account.
• n. The behavioural process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs against obstacles in the environment.
• n. The assessment, by an insurance company, of a claim; the settlement of such a claim.

allowance

• n. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting.
• n. Acknowledgment.
• n. That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty,…
• n. a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
• n. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances.
• n. (commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries.
• n. A child's allowance; pocket money.
• n. (minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing…
• n. (obsolete) approval; approbation.
• n. (obsolete) license; indulgence.
• v. To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity.

decrease

• v. (intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
• v. (transitive) To make (a quantity) smaller.
• n. An amount by which a quantity is decreased.
• n. (knitting) A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be…

deduction

• n. That which is deducted; that which is subtracted or removed.
• n. A sum that can be removed from tax calculations; something that is written off.
• n. (logic) A process of reasoning that moves from the general to the specific, in which a conclusion follows…
• n. A conclusion; that which is deduced, concluded or figured out.
• n. The ability or skill to deduce or figure out; the power of reason.

diminution

• n. A lessening, decrease or reduction.
• n. The act or process of making diminutive.
• n. (music) a compositional technique where the composer shortens the melody by shortening its note values.

dismiss

• v. (transitive) To discharge; to end the employment or service of.
• v. (transitive) To order to leave.
• v. (transitive) To dispel; to rid one's mind of.
• v. (transitive) To reject; to refuse to accept.
• v. To send or put away.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To get a batsman out.
• v. (transitive, soccer) To give someone a red card; to send off.

disregard

• n. The act or state of deliberately not paying attention or caring about; misregard.
• v. To ignore; misregard.

ignore

• v. To deliberately pay no attention to.
• v. To pretend to not notice someone or something.
• v. (obsolete) Fail to notice.

rebate

• n. A deduction from an amount to be paid; an abatement.
• n. The return of part of an amount already paid.
• n. (photography) The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.
• n. A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.
• n. A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
• n. An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
• n. A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.
• v. (transitive) To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment.
• v. (transitive) To diminish or lessen something.
• v. To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for…
• v. (transitive) To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something.
• v. To abate; to withdraw.

reduction

• n. The act, process, or result of reducing.
• n. The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.
• n. (chemistry) A reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen…
• n. (cooking) The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.
• n. (mathematics) The rewriting of an expression into a simpler form.
• n. (computability theory) a transformation of one problem into another problem, such as mapping reduction…
• n. (music) An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.
• n. (philosophy, phenomenology) A philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness…
• n. (medicine) A medical procedure to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.

refund

• v. (transitive) To return (money) to (someone); to reimburse.
• v. (obsolete) To supply again with funds.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To pour back.
• n. An amount of money returned.

reject

• v. (transitive) To refuse to accept.
• v. (basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
• n. Something that is rejected.
• n. (derogatory slang) An unpopular person.

step-down

• adj. That decreases in stages.
• adj. (of a transformer etc) That reduces a voltage.