to discount
- verb
- /ˈdɪsˌkaʊnt/
- Despite the problems, not everyone is willing to discount the value of using arbitration in the employment context.
- discount the possibility
- discount the importance
- discount the significance
And at that stage, you can discount all of that feedback.
- And at that stage, you can discount all of that feedback.
- There's people worse off than me, but I'm not discounting what my issues are.
- So think about what those are and don't discount how simple they might seem.
- I think, I think there's so much you have to do to discount the Christian faith.
- So don't ever discount somebody in your life who's telling you.
- And so people tend to discount the things we all just take for granted.
- That's why despite the incredibly strong incentives I laid out, people don't because they discount the future, OK?
- And what I mean by that is I've come across a lot of women who discount men, write them off.
- And he just, he, he he ignored it or he discounted it.
- Or worse, like we can't discount DNA in entrepreneur land because it's not convenient.
Examples
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So part of our research is anti research to discount what everyone else has talked about.
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But I'd like to explain a couple of things about what we're trying to do in this campaign before you discount it altogether.
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So what else do you need to discount in the R to account for the risk?
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Are you just gonna discount that?
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And at that stage, you can discount all of that feedback.
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Most folks had finally started to discount the possibility that we would ever find anyone else.
Fiction book (1998) -
And so people tend to discount the things we all just take for granted.
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But we can't discount the fact that people want food there.
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One important factor that should not be discounted is the role of gut feeling or intuition.
Academic text (2012) -
It's unfair to discount her contributions just because of her age.
Synonyms
Choose not to pay attention to someone or something
To refuse to accept an idea or claim
Ignore something or someone on purpose
To say someone or something is not worth taking seriously without careful thought
To ignore what someone says or feels as unimportant
Ignore a person or thing because you think they are not important
Refuse to think about something, for example worries or objections
To treat an idea or opinion as unimportant and not worth taking seriously
Treat something as unimportant and ignore it
To think someone or something has little value
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Specialized
A reduction in the price shown given to a shop for buying large amounts of goods
How Dismissive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Discount meaning 'ignore' grew from the idea of 'counting less': if you 'discount' an opinion you treat it as less important. So to discount someone's view is to reduce its value or not give it much weight.