trade discount

American  

noun

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

---

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

---

Etymology

Origin of trade discount

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

"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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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)

He had come out of his failure with enough to leave him able to go into business again, and, with anything like fair trade, discount all his bills.

From Tales of the Road by Crewdson, Charles N. (Charles Newman)

There was no trade discount, no reckoning twelves as thirteens, no commission, and no credit of any kind whatever.

From My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. by Various