discounting

Meaning

of Discount

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

diminishing barring deduct deprecating depreciating decreasing decrying conjecturing detracting

Antonyms

beholding acting assuming believing belonging attending
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Examples

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected. George Soros

I am discounting reports of UFOs. Why would they appear only to cranks and weirdos? Stephen Hawking

The discounting presumably is to be done for each period of time at that rate of interest which represents the alternative cost of employing capital in the occupation in question; that is, at the rate which the entrepreneur could obtain in other investments. Kenneth Boulding

In addition to valuable contributions to journalism, Bradley's reporting also spurred social activism, but also spurred change with his reporting on AIDS in Africa, Death by Denial, which helped influence drug companies into discounting and donating AIDS drugs to Africa. Ed Bradley

Man's craving for the supernatural is as natural as our discounting of the present moment... The natural becomes trite and commonplace to us and we take refuge in an imaginary world above and beyond it. John Burroughs

Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness. Warren Farrell