discounting

plural discountings

1. The act or process by which something is discounted.
   1. countableuncountableThe act or process of dismissing from consideration.

      It is human to have experienced losses, defeats, put-downs, snubs, rejections, criticisms, and discountings.

      1997, Luciano L'Abate, The Self in the Family, page 131

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      In Excerpts 15 and 16, G more directly claims and imputes knowledge as means for substantiating her position, relying on these alternative resources in responding to S's discountings and withholdings and thereby legitimizing her pursuit.

      2012, Wayne A. Beach, Conversations About Illness, page 49

      Negative theology, by being overwhelmingly preoccupied with delineating what God is not (He does not possess knowledge the way human beings possess knowledge; He is not powerful in hte ways that human beings are powerful, etc.), confronts the paradox that unless there is some conceptually accessible core to God's Essence all of negative theology's disownings and discountings of God's attributes seem to lack an object to be about.

      2013, Aryeh Botwinick, Emmanuel Levinas and the Limits to Ethics

   2. countableuncountableThe act or process of deducting part of a charge, debt, etc.

      Many of the ACC's planned to increase FICB discountings during coming years.

      1975, Improved Fund Availability at Rural Banks, page 50

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      Similarly, discountings by FICBs are available only for short- and intermediate-term agricultural loans but not for the wide range of other rural credit needs.

      1972, Business Conditions: Seventh Federal Reserve District, page 16

      In economic evaluations, this time preference is taken into account by ariations of rates of discount or discountings, which in most cases depend on the current average interest rates.

      2012, Detlef Schwefel, Herbert Zöllner, Peter Potthoff, Costs and Effects of Managing Chronic Psychotic Patients, page 1961

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of discount