Discount Definition–verb (used with object) | 1. | to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent. |
| 2. | to offer for sale or sell at a reduced price: The store discounted all clothing for the sale. |
| 3. | to advance or lend money with deduction of interest on (commercial paper not immediately payable). |
| 4. | to purchase or sell (a bill or note) before maturity at a reduction based on the interest for the time it still has to run. |
| 5. | to leave out of account; disregard: Even if we discount the irrelevant material, the thesis remains mediocre. |
| 6. | to allow for exaggeration in (a statement, opinion, etc.): Knowing his political bias they discounted most of his story. |
| 7. | to take into account in advance, often so as to diminish the effect of: They had discounted the effect of a decline in the stock market. |
–verb (used without object) | 8. | to advance or lend money after deduction of interest. |
| 9. | to offer goods or services at a reduced price. |
–noun | 10. | the act or an instance of discounting. |
| 11. | an amount deducted from the usual list price. |
| 12. | any deduction from the nominal value. |
| 13. | a payment of interest in advance upon a loan of money. |
| 14. | the amount of interest obtained by one who discounts. |
| 15. | an allowance made for exaggeration or bias, as in a report, story, etc.: Even after all the discounts are taken, his story sounds phony. |
–adjective | 16. | selling or offered at less than the usual or established price: discount theater tickets. |
| 17. | selling goods at a discount: a discount drugstore. |
—Idiom| 18. | at a discount,
| b. | below the usual list price. |
| c. | in low esteem or regard: His excuses were taken at a discount by all who knew him. |
| d. | not in demand; unwanted: Such ancient superstitions are at a discount in a civilized society. |
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Travel Definition–verb (used without object) | 1. | to go from one place to another, as by car, train, plane, or ship; take a trip; journey: to travel for pleasure. |
| 2. | to move or go from one place or point to another. |
| 3. | to proceed or advance in any way. |
| 4. | to go from place to place as a representative of a business firm. |
| 5. | to associate or consort: He travels in a wealthy crowd. |
| 6. | Informal. to move with speed. |
| 7. | to pass, or be transmitted, as light or sound. |
| 8. | Basketball. walk (def. 9). |
| 9. | to move in a fixed course, as a piece of mechanism. |
–verb (used with object) | 10. | to travel, journey, or pass through or over, as a country or road. |
| 11. | to journey or traverse (a specified distance): We traveled a hundred miles. |
| 12. | to cause to journey; ship: to travel logs downriver. |
–noun | 13. | the act of traveling; journeying, esp. to distant places: to travel to other planets. |
| 14. | travels, | a. | journeys; wanderings: to set out on one's travels. |
| b. | journeys as the subject of a written account or literary work: a book of travels. |
| c. | such an account or work. |
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| 15. | the coming and going of persons or conveyances along a way of passage; traffic: an increase in travel on state roads. |
| 16. | Machinery. | a. | the complete movement of a moving part, esp. a reciprocating part, in one direction, or the distance traversed; stroke. |
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| 17. | movement or passage in general: to reduce the travel of food from kitchen to table. |
–adjective | 18. | used or designed for use while traveling: a travel alarm clock. |
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