AT A DISCOUNT

Definition: AT A DISCOUNT

AT A DISCOUNT

1. Below par, or below the nominal value; hence, colloquially, out of favor; poorly esteemed; depreciated.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Finance

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Disapprobation

Disapproved, chid;Verb: in bad odor, blown upon, unapproved; unblest; at a discount, exploded; weighed in the balance and found wanting.

Discount

Adverb: at a discount, below par; at wholesale; have a friend in the business.

Disrepute

Adjective: disgraced; Verb: blown upon; "shorn of its beams ", shorn of one's glory; overcome, downtrodden; loaded with shame; Noun: in bad repute; Noun: out of repute, out of favor, out of fashion, out of countenance; at a discount; under a cloud, under an eclipse; unable to show one's face; in the shade, in the background; out at elbows, down at the elbows, down in the world.

Crosswords: AT A DISCOUNT

Business

France Telecom has also retained a hold on fixed-line clients, by its ownership of the last local loop, and leasing it to other providers that offer the service at a discount. (references)

Economic History

India

Companies can pre-pay up to 10 percent of outstanding debt or any debt due in one year or less, giving companies the chance to buy back debt at a discount. (references)

Tunisia

THE GOVERNMENT HAS ESTABLISHED QUASI-STATAL ENTITIES (SOCIETÉS DE RECOUVREMENT DE CREANCES) TO BUY THE NON- OR UNDER-PERFORMING DEBT OF COMMERCIAL BANKS, PRESUMABLY AT A DISCOUNT, TO IMPROVE THE BALANCE SHEETS OF INDIVIDUAL BANKS. (references)

Political Economy

IRELAND

The primary instrument of monetary policy is expected to be open market operations by the ECB and the national central banks (purchases and repurchases of government securities at a discount rate announced weekly). (references)

Worker Rights

Sao Tome and Principe

Workers often were forced to pay higher prices on the parallel market to obtain the goods theoretically provided at a discount as part of their compensation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "AT A DISCOUNT": sell at a discount. Additional references.

Czech

se slevou. (various references)

Danish

under pari (below par). (various references)

Dutch

beneden pari (below par). (various references)

Finnish

myydä alennuksella (sell at a discount). (various references)

French

au-dessous du pair. (various references)

German

unter Nennwert. (various references)

Greek 

κάτω από το άρτιο (below par). (various references)

Italian

sotto la pari (below par). (various references)

Pig Latin

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Romanian

cu rabat. (various references)

Spanish

debajo de la par (below par). (various references)

Swedish

under pari, med rabatt, impopulär (invidious, out of favor, out of favour, unpopular). (various references)

Turkish

ucuza (cheap, cheaply, dirt cheap, on the cheap), indirimli (cut, cut rate, deductible, off-peak, reduced). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: actuations.

-2 letters: actuation, autacoids, causation, custodian.

-3 letters: antacids, auctions, autacoid, cautions, conduits, discount, noctuids, oscitant, outstand, standout, sudation, tactions, titanous.

-4 letters: acinous, actions, anattos, antacid, astatic, astound, atonics, attains, auction, cations, caution, conatus, conduit, dacoits, discant, distant, inducts, noctuid, octants, outacts, outcast, sacaton, satanic, scandia, station, suction, taction, tostada, toucans.

-5 letters: acinus, actins, action, adonis.

+3 letters: educationalist, transductional.

+4 letters: disarticulation, educationalists.

+5 letters: disarticulations.