Discounting/Definition

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Discounting [r]: (i) The action of selling a bill of exchange before its due payment (or "maturity") date "at a discount": that is to say after paying the purchaser a fee for accepting it. (ii) The practice of calculating the current equivalent of a future cost or benefit by the application of a chosen discount rate.