trade discount

American  

noun

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

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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

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Etymology

Origin of trade discount

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"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

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

In order to cover the expense involved in handling these supplies, the manufacturers in some cases have agreed to allow National Headquarters the same trade discount allowed to local dealers.

From Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

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)