| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take away |
| Synonyms: | decrease, deduct, detract, diminish, discount, draw back, knock off, remove, take, take from, take off, take out, withdraw, withhold |
| Antonyms: | add |
| Main Entry: | deduct |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take away or out; reduce |
| Synonyms: | abstract, allow, bate, cut back, decrease by, diminish, discount, dock, draw back, knock off, lessen, rebate, reduce, remove, roll back, subtract, take, take from, take off, withdraw, write off |
| Notes: | deduce means to conclude by reasoning or in logic; adduce means to cite as proof or evidence; deduct means to take away from or subtract from another |
| Antonyms: | add, increase, raise |
| Main Entry: | discount |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lower, reduce cost |
| Synonyms: | abate, allow, deduct, depreciate, diminish, hold a sale, knock off, make allowance for, mark down, modify, rebate, redeem, remove, sell at discount, strike off, subtract, take away, take off, undersell |
| Antonyms: | increase, mark up, raise |
| Main Entry: | draw back |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | retract from position |
| Synonyms: | deduct, discount, pull back, recede, recoil, reel in, retreat, sheathe, shrink, start back, subtract, take away, withdraw |
| Antonyms: | forge, go forward, start |
| Main Entry: | reduced |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | made smaller |
| Synonyms: | abbreviated, abridged, compressed, concentrated, condensed, contracted, cut down, decreased, diminished, downsized, economized, lessened, miniaturized, scaled down, shortened, shrunk, subtracted |
| Antonyms: | enlarged, increased, spread, stretched |
| Main Entry: | minus |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | on the negative side |
| Synonyms: | defective, diminished, from, lacking, less, negative, subtracted, without |
| Antonyms: | plus |
| Concept: | Discount. |
| Category: | 4. Monetary Relations |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
discount, abatement, concession, reduction, depreciation, allowance; qualification, set-off, drawback, poundage, agio, percentage; rebate, rebatement; backwardation, contango; salvage; tare and tret.
-verbs
discount, bate; abate, rebate; reduce, take off, allow, give, make allowance; tax.
-adjectives
discounting
-adverbs
at a discount, below par.
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