discounting

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The act or process by which something is discounted.

   “It is human to have experienced losses, defeats, put-downs, snubs, rejections, criticisms, and discountings.”

   “In Excerpts 15 and 16, G more directly claims and imputes knowledge as means for substantiating her position, relying on these alternative resources in responding to S's discountings and withholdings and thereby legitimizing her pursuit.”

   “Negative theology, by being overwhelmingly preoccupied with delineating what God is not (He does not possess knowledge the way human beings possess knowledge; He is not powerful in hte ways that human beings are powerful, etc.), confronts the paradox that unless there is some conceptually accessible core to God's Essence all of negative theology's disownings and discountings of God's attributes seem to lack an object to be about.”

2. (countable, uncountable)The act or process by which something is discounted.

   “Similarly, discountings by FICBs are available only for short- and intermediate-term agricultural loans but not for the wide range of other rural credit needs.”

   “Many of the ACC's planned to increase FICB discountings during coming years.”

   “In economic evaluations, this time preference is taken into account by ariations of rates of discount or discountings, which in most cases depend on the current average interest rates.”

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of discount