discount house
Americannoun
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Also called discount store. a store that sells much of its merchandise at a price below the usual price.
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British. bill broker.
noun
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a financial organization engaged in discounting bills of exchange, etc on a large scale primarily by borrowing call money from commercial banks
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another name for discount store
Etymology
Origin of discount house
First recorded in 1945–50
Example Sentences
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There, crowds of customers were enthusiastically shopping in France's first discount house, with prices of refrigerators, toasters and all other goods cut a flat 20% under prices fixed by manufacturers and retailers.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the process, the distinction between a discount house and a department store is getting harder to tell without a scorecard.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shoppers quickly learned to visit a service-minded store for a free lesson about a particular product, then go down the street to a discount house to buy the item for 25% less.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Skelton finally turns in, he lies down�usually with two or three of his dogs�on something that suggests a discount house with springs.
From Time Magazine Archive
And so, just when their little world—kindly, malicious, censorious, as the case might be—was expecting to hear of their engagement, Godfrey Pavely suddenly left Pewsbury to spend a year in a great Paris discount house.
From Love and hatred by Lowndes, Marie Belloc
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