discounted

1. 1
   adjective

   Offered or sold at a price lower than the usual or original amount.

   Her discounted membership saved nearly two hundred dollars over the year.

   Retailers cleared out last season's discounted inventory before the new arrivals.

   Similarreduced, cut-price, cheap

   Oppositeundiscounted

   Note

   A word of fares, tickets and goods sold below their usual price, and it sits comfortably before a noun: discounted saver tickets, discounted stock. It compares with more and most rather than -er and -est, so a sale's deepest markdowns are its most discounted lines. Unlike the past-tense verb, which reports someone cutting a price, the adjective describes a state the item is in.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of discount.

   The manager discounted the bulk order to keep the client happy.

   Several theaters discounted their tickets during the slow winter months.

   Note

   One spelling serves both the past tense and the participle: she discounted the claim; the claim was discounted; prices have been discounted. The form carries every meaning of discount, not only the shop's. A discounted warning is one set aside as unimportant, and a market that has discounted the news has already anticipated it. The price meaning is the one that settled into the everyday adjective.

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