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noun

a term of sale by which the buyer deducts a percentage from the bill if it is paid immediately in cash or within a stipulated period by check or cash.

the amount deducted.

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Origin of cash discount

First recorded in 1915–20

Words nearby cash discount

cash card, cash cow, cash crop, cash customer, cash desk, cash discount, cash dispenser, cashdrawer, cashed up, cashew, cashew apple

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How to use cash discount in a sentence

One that they cannot cash in at the bank to pay for their flats.
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Crain posted a cash bond of $102.50 apiece shortly before 1:30 P.M., and they returned to the Castle Hotel.
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Target was established in 1962 by the Dayton brothers as a discount offshoot of their eponymous Twin Cities department store.
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Mister Ham in need of cash: That is something a lot of people will not believe.
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Hitchcock was quick to add he didn't see the cash exchange hands, but he doesn't doubt it happened.
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Were you ever arrested, having in your custody another man's cash, and would rather go to gaol, than break it?
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The “Compañia General de Tabacos” lost about ₱30,000 in cash in addition to the damage done to their offices and property.
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The promoters went his security and put up the cash into the bargain, and he went back to the publishing house victorious.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
Germany invests money abroad, but she seems to borrow as much, and more, in the discount markets of London and Paris.
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His wife had sold her relinquishment on the claim that he had spent thirty-five hundred dollars cash for.
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British Dictionary definitions for cash discount

cash discount

noun

a discount granted to a purchaser who pays before a stipulated date

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