Word Meanings - DISCOUNTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who discounts; a discount broker. Burke.

Related words: (words related to DISCOUNTER)

• BROKERY
  The business of a broker. And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe.
• BROKERAGE
  1. The business or employment of a broker. Burke. 2. The fee, reward, or commission, given or changed for transacting business as a broker.
• DISCOUNTENANCE
  1. To ruffle or discompose the countenance of; to put of countenance; to put to shame; to abash. How would one look from his majestic brow . . . Discountenance her despised! Milton. The hermit was somewhat discountenanced by this observation. Sir
• DISCOUNTENANCER
  One who discountenances; one who disfavors. Bacon.
• BROKERLY
  Mean; servile. B. Jonson.
• DISCOUNTER
  One who discounts; a discount broker. Burke.
• BROKER
  An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. He takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. He generally
• DISCOUNTABLE
  Capable of being, or suitable to be, discounted; as, certain forms are necessary to render notes discountable at a bank.
• DISCOUNT
  décompter to discount; pref. des- + conter, compter. See 1. To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills. 2. To lend money upon,
• BURKE
  1. To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection. 2. To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary
• SHAREBROKER
  A broker who deals in railway or other shares and securities.
• PAWNBROKER
  One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.
• BILL BROKER
  One who negotiates the discount of bills.
• BANK DISCOUNT
  A sum equal to the interest at a given rate on the principal of a bill or note from the time of discounting until it becomes due.
• STOCKBROKER
  A broker who deals in stocks.