at a discount

prepositional phrase

Below the usual price; below face value.

Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

prepositional phrase
  1. Below the usual price; below face value.
  2. figurativelyIn low regard; not in demand.

    It is not that there are no replacements for such as Derek Gladwin; the tragedy is that there are. It is rather that, nowadays, long service and ideological constancy are at a discount as you move upwards.

    2003 April 14, Lord McCarthy, “Obituary: Lord Gladwin of Clee”, in The Guardian

Translations

Hungarian kedvezményesen
  • kedvezményesenbelow the usual price
Cite this entry
APA

at a discount. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/at%20a%20discount

MLA

“at a discount.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/at%20a%20discount. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “at a discount,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/at%20a%20discount.

Source: at a discount on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.