discount market

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noun

a trading market in which notes, bills, and other negotiable instruments are discounted.

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Origin of discount market

First recorded in 1890–95

Words nearby discount market

discount broker, discounted cash flow, discountenance, discounter, discount house, discount market, discount rate, discount store, discourage, discouraged, discouragement

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How to use discount market in a sentence

It may be fun and it may get them paid, until oversaturation ruins our sense for irony and destroys the market for it.
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Paperback publishers distributed their titles in African-American neighborhoods because it expanded their market base.
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Indeed, Lion Air, with 45 percent of the domestic Indonesian airline market, has swallowed the Fernandes formula whole.
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Expensive day care pushes women out of the labor market while men continue to work outside the home.
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Mr. Bachner found it by wandering through the market and identified a craftsmen here who works in a tiny booth.
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When the days were fine, Jean in his basket assisted at the dramatic performance in the market-place.
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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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The declaration of war, or cessation thereof, used to be proclaimed in the market by the High Bailiff.
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His partner, Boulton, had a lot ready for the market, and sold 150 by the end of the year.
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It was, moreover, of a very poor colour and certainly not of the kind that would readily find a market.
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British Dictionary definitions for discount market

discount market

noun

the part of the money market consisting of banks, discount houses, and brokers on which bills are discounted

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