trade discount

American  

noun

1. a discount, as from the list price of goods, granted by a manufacturer or wholesaler to a retailer.

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trade discount British  

noun

1. a sum or percentage deducted from the list price of a commodity allowed by a manufacturer, distributor, or wholesaler to a retailer or by one enterprise to another in the same trade

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Etymology

Origin of trade discount

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

Dealers get a trade discount of 65� per 1,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

"In addition to the trade discount, we get an extra 1� discount by paying cash for everything we buy," says Los Angeles' William E. Phillips, whose discount house grossed $6,000,000 last year.

From Time Magazine Archive

Before a calculation is finished we must add the selling expenses to the cost, also take account of the trade discount.

From Theory of Silk Weaving A Treatise on the Construction and Application of Weaves, and the Decomposition and Calculation of Broad and Narrow, Plain, Novelty and Jacquard Silk Fabrics by Wolfensberger, Arnold

In introducing trade discount, we may give excess practice on '5% of' and '10% of' deliberately, so that the meaning of discount may not be obscured by difficulties in the computation itself.

From The Psychology of Arithmetic by Thorndike, Edward L. (Edward Lee)

In order to cover the expense involved in handling these supplies, the manufacturers have agreed to allow National Headquarters the same trade discount allowed to local dealers.

From Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America