(~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ is a reduction in the usual price of something.
They are often available at a ~...
Full-time staff get a 20 per cent ~.
N-COUNT
2.
If a shop or company ~s an amount or percentage from something that they are selling, they take the amount or percentage off the usual price.
This has forced airlines to ~ fares heavily in order to spur demand...
VERB: V n
3.
If you ~ an idea, fact, or theory, you consider that it is not true, not important, or not relevant.
However, traders tended to ~ the rumor...
= disregard
VERB: V n