trade discount

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noun

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

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Origin of trade discount

First recorded in 1900–05

Words nearby trade discount

trade book, trade council, tradecraft, trade cycle, trade deficit, trade discount, trade dollar, traded option, trade down, trade dress, trade edition

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How to use trade discount in a sentence

Its graceful hotels and beautiful restaurants are totally dependent on the tourist trade.
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Dance instructors run a lucrative trade offering private lessons to couples before their wedding receptions, typically the tango.
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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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Rebels in Africa trade in children to fund their conflicts and obtain child soldiers.
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The Canterbury Tales was, Strohm writes, “one of the volumes around which the new trade would organize itself.”
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The result of the restoration of trade, banking, and credit to earlier and more normal conditions has been steadily apparent.
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The doctrine of international free trade, albeit the most conspicuous of its applications, was but one case under the general law.
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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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But they have tied their credit system in the bonds of narrow banking laws and their trade in those of a cramping tariff.
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So far we have not made great progress in securing Europe's Latin-American trade.
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British Dictionary definitions for trade discount

trade discount

noun

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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