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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

贴现

Native Script:中文汉字

Pronunciation / Transliteration: tiēxiàn

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Discounting/ˈdɪs.kaʊn.tɪŋ/
nounverbCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #6500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"贴现率对未来现金流的价值有重大影响。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The practice of reducing the price of something, or the financial process of determining the present value of a payment or stream of payments to be received in the future.

    "Economic forecasting relies heavily on the discounting of future cash flows to account for inflation and risk."
As verb
  1. 1

    Dismissing something as unimportant, unreliable, or irrelevant.

    "She made a mistake by discounting the advice of her experienced mentors."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the verb 'discount', which stems from Old French 'desconter' (composed of the prefix 'des-' meaning 'away' or 'off', and 'conter' meaning 'to count'), ultimately originating from Late Latin 'computare'. Over time, the financial sense evolved to describe calculating the present value of future cash flows, while the general meaning expanded to include dismissing ideas or information as unworthy of consideration.

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